15 Ways to Make an Overpowered Warlock in Dungeons and Dragons

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15 Ways to Make an Overpowered Warlock in Dungeons and Dragons

Warlocks are an interesting class because they gain their magic through making a deal with an entity. Make them the strongest with these tips. Playing a warlock in can be a lot of fun. The class has tons of great flavor and opportunities for baked right in. Did you sell your soul to an inscrutable being in exchange for magical powers? Fantastic! There are all kinds of oppurtunities for drama to explore there. Warlock is also a pretty good class for beginning players who want to take a stab at a spellcaster. Some spellcasting classes, like druid and cleric, absolutely inundate you with spells to keep track of—warlock might look limiting by comparison. But there's actually a lot of room for customization, and we'll look at how to make your character an eldritch powerhouse. Updated by Kristy Ambrose, January 9th, 2021: The Warlock class is currently the most popular choice for D&D players, which might seem odd considering that they are a fairly new playable class and not included in the more traditional classes that include Fighters, Clerics, and Wizards. In this case, it's all about customization. The Warlock is one of the most versatile classes available and in a game where multiclass and dual-class characters are evolving into an art form, which makes this class one of the most obvious choices. The Warlock continues to evolve, and ways to make this favorite class even moe overpowered continue to grow along with it. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY

Make Charisma Your Highest Stat

This might seem strange at first if you're not planning on making a particularly persuasive character. But warlocks are actually Charisma-based spellcasters! All the numbers for their magical powers, like attack bonuses and saving throws, rely on a good Charisma score. It makes sense when you think about it; your character and maintains them based on that relationship. So something about your character must be suitably charming to encourage an otherworldly creature to lend you some of its strength.

Be a Tiefling

This overlaps with the importance of having a Warlock with a high charisma stat. Anyone who's a Tiefling has a demon in the family tree anyway. The blood pact of Asmodeus, Overlord of the Nine Hells, is at the root of this enigmatic and feared race. Convenient not only from a career standpoint but also great for the backstory and to buff those two critical stats. All Tieflings have a +1 to their intelligence and a +2 to their charisma, essential for an OP Warlock.

Don t Neglect Your Dex

Warlocks need to focus on charisma and intelligence but don't forget about the stat that's almost as equally important. Dexterity is vital for spellcasters and fighters, and a Warlock can easily be both. Making sure you have a solid dexterity stat means your Warlock is just as deadly using both magic and blades. That means you have more options to customize your character at later levels regarding gear and weapons, and that's what being a Warlock is all about.

Polearm Mastery

via: WOTC Sure, Warlocks can be a melee class, why not? That's why the D&D gods made Hexblade Pact and the Pact of the Blade. Polearm mastery covers a variety of two-handed weapons, including quarterstaves, but the glaive or halberd also grants the Warlock the reach ability, along with giving them an opportunity attack to anyone that wanders within the extended melee range of ten feet. This is one example of how a few clever combinations of feats and stats can make a Warlock totally OP.

Choose Pact of the Chain

Of the pact boons, Pact of the Blade is good for a warrior, and Pact of the Tome offers great utility. Pact of the Chain, however, gives you a really excellent little pet. Who wouldn't want that? In all seriousness, the familiar options provided by Pact of the Chain go beyond what even wizards can get with their find familiar spell. Instead of picking from the usual menagerie of animals, you can also choose from an imp, pseudodragon, warlock, or sprite. They all have some unique upsides and can be used for a variety of tasks, including scouting. Plus, unlike the wizard's familiar, yours can even attack!

Be Born A Half-Elf

There are quite a few races that give out Charisma boosts, which should be your primary concern. Tieflings, pretty much the default race for edgy warlocks, give you a juicy +2 alongside a bonus to Intelligence. But we can do better. Half-elves not only get that lovely +2 to Charisma, but they also get an extra +1 to two more stats of your choice. You have some freedom to improve more desirable stats or balance any that rolled lower than you'd like. Not to mention half-elves get proficiency to two skills of their choice also, in addition to the ever-useful darkvision.

Make A Deal With The Devil

When you first build a warlock you'll have to make a decision about who you want to sell your soul to. You want to make the right decision—you only have one. While Pact of the Archfey and Pact of the Great Old One both have their fun flavor and useful abilities, sometimes you just have to go with the classics. The Pact of the Fiend provides you with some extra HP and a cool signature move that literally hurls an enemy through hell, dealing tons of damage. Their expanded spell list is also very useful if you want to blow stuff up and even offers some useful crowd control spells to boot.

Beef Up Your Eldritch Blast

Eldritch blast is a warlock's signature cantrip. A ranged spell that does a juicy d10 damage and it scales when you level. This is probably one of your most powerful tools and certainly your most reliable. But why settle? Eldritch invocations, which you unlock at 2nd level, give you some options to improve upon your already sick spell. Agonizing Blast is almost required since it allows you to add your Charisma modifier to the spell's damage. You can maximize it further by taking Eldritch Spear, which increases the range, and Repelling Blast, which lets you push creatures around.

Synergize Devil s Sight and Darkness

Sometimes it all just comes together. Warlocks have access to the spell darkness, which fills a 15-foot bubble with magical dark. Nonmagical sources of light can't illuminate it and even trusty darkvision can't cut through it. The darkness blinds everyone in the bubble, giving disadvantages to attacks on both sides. But your warlock also has access to an eldritch invocation called Devil's Sight, which gives you the ability to see in all darkness, both magical and not. Have fun mowing down enemies with an advantage.

Become A War Caster

The first time you'll get an ability score increase is at 4th level, and you can choose to boost your stats if you want to. But you'll also have the option of . The War Caster feat is incomparably useful for all spellcasting classes. It gives you an advantage on saves to maintain concentration on a spell when you take damage, which is invaluable all by itself. However, you also get the ability to cast spells with hand motions while your hands are full of deadly weapons, perfect for a bladelock, as well as being able to cast spells as a reaction instead of melee opportunity attacks.

Become a Spell Sniper

Not every Warlock wants to be a melee fighter, and thanks to the creativity inherent in building this class, they don't have to be. Another great choice for an OP feat is the spell sniper, which is a natural progression for a Warlock, especially one with an Eldritch Blast build. Spell sniper has the handy ability to double the range of any spell that requires an attack roll, which means your already lethal Eldritch Blast now has a range of up to 240 feet.

Invoke The Book of Ancient Secrets

You might have decided to take Pact of the Tome instead. It's a solid choice, since it gives you access to a few more cantrips, and they can be from any other class's spell list. But if you really want to get the most out of that build, you're going to need the Book of Ancient Secrets invocation. Not only does it give you the ability to cast some warlock spells as rituals, saving a spell slot, but you can also inscribe other ritual spells from any other spell list into the book for future use. It gives the warlock a lot of utility and, with some planning, can make or break an encounter.

Learn Shadow of Moil

An obscure spell that envelopes the caster in shadowy flames, which sounds pretty normal, until you consider that these flames dim the light around them instead of strengthening it. The flames also grant the caster resistance to radiant damage and do 2d8 of necrotic damage to anyone within 10 feet who hits them with an attack. The ability to remain obscured from everyone, even your allies, while doing AoE damage is handy anyway, and when you combine it with Hexblade related abilities in a melee battle environment it becomes lethal.

Multiclass Into Paladin

If you decide to go for a more melee-focused warlock and take Pact of the Blade, almost nothing could suit you better than a . You get proficiency with all armor and weapons and a healing ability right out of the gate. But what really makes it worth it is the paladin's smite ability. They're generally bonus actions you cast when you hit with a weapon attack that causes extra damage or other fun effects. They cost spell slots and warlocks have the lovely ability to regain all expended slots after a short rest. You can really rain down the fire that way.

Actually Multiclass Into Sorcerer Instead

We know, we just said to take some levels in paladin for a powerful warlock build. And it can be very powerful when paired with the right kind of warlock. But if you don't intend to make a half-caster character, a multiclass into sorcerer is probably the better bet. Because sorcerers get metamagic. Metamagic gives you the option of recycling spell slots into sorcery points, which can be used for other fun sorcerous effects. And, like above, you get those spell slots back after a short rest, which means even more sorcery points!