I wanted to make a blood hunter and found the order of the profane soul to be pretty cool, thematically, but the more I look at it, the more I'm beginning to believe I'd rather just be a Hexblade warlock. Maybe I'm missing something, but the loss of higher level spells for a fighting style and the rite damage doesn't seem a fair trade. They share medium armor and shield proficiency as well as a myriad of other comparable specialties, but I feel as though the Hexblade just comes out over top.
Any thoughts? I hope I'm just missing something silly. This comparison is being done at level three also.
You're not missing anything. The Hexblade is over-powered, especially at lower levels.
However, the Profane Soul does get to pull off a few tricks at mid to high levels which the Hexblade doesn't have, like the Diabolic Channel ability at 11th level, which is almost broken, IMHO. This gets even better with 3rd level spells at 13th level; loading your weapon with a Vampiric Touch spell is very nasty.
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I wanted to make a blood hunter and found the order of the profane soul to be pretty cool, thematically, but the more I look at it, the more I'm beginning to believe I'd rather just be a Hexblade warlock. Maybe I'm missing something, but the loss of higher level spells for a fighting style and the rite damage doesn't seem a fair trade. They share medium armor and shield proficiency as well as a myriad of other comparable specialties, but I feel as though the Hexblade just comes out over top.
Any thoughts? I hope I'm just missing something silly. This comparison is being done at level three also.
You're not missing anything. The Hexblade is over-powered, especially at lower levels.
However, the Profane Soul does get to pull off a few tricks at mid to high levels which the Hexblade doesn't have, like the Diabolic Channel ability at 11th level, which is almost broken, IMHO. This gets even better with 3rd level spells at 13th level; loading your weapon with a Vampiric Touch spell is very nasty.
DICE FALL, EVERYONE ROCKS!