Warlock Information Compilation

[The_Mad_Linguist]

What, no bloodlines?

[snakeman830]

Just noticed a rather important mistake on the Epic Fiendish Resiliance feat.  The first time you take it, it raises the Fast healing rate to 25.  Each additional time you take it, it increases the Fast Healing by 5 and gives you an additional use per day.  This actually makes it a rather decent feat in higher epic.  Fast Healing 40 for each encounter (assuming you have 4 per day) for 5 minutes at a time is nothing to sneeze at, even in Epic.  You don't even have the 2000hp that it heals with each activation (50 round duration), so each time it's garunteed to heal you fully.

[snakeman830]

A few handy items for Warlocks:

1. Bracers of Blast Barrier: 3,200gp price tag makes these available around level 5.  Turn your Eldritch Blast (or any other damaging invocation) into a 10*10 wall 3/day with a duration based on spell level (if using your Blast for this, apply an Esccences).  Not bad as it offers some battlefield control long before you gain access to any of those invocations (not counting Wall of Gloom).

2. Bracers of Entangling Blast: Less expensive at 2,000gp and more useful to boot.  3/day, you can alter any invocation to deal half damage, but entangles anyone damaged by it for 1d3 rounds (no save)  During each round, they take 1 damage per spell level.  This is best used when combined with a damage over time invocation (Wall of Perilous Flame actually ends up dealing more damage this way) as the entangling will re-trigger each time they take damage.  In the meantime, you just gave them a -4 penalty to Dexterity, -2 penalty on attack rolls (total of -4 for Dex-based attacks), and halved their movement speed.  Not bad, and the price is right, making this item available early on.

3. Gloves of Eldritch Adimixture: 2,500 gp to add fire, cold, or acid damage to your Eldritch Blast up to 3/day, depending on how you spend the charges.  It's bonus damage, which can be handy.

[Cazador75]

Hi folks, I've a little question.

Why is the feat Flyby Attack so cool? You can move, attack, and move again without exceeding in total your movement speed (50'), I really don't see it so useful...

And other thing, if I use invisibility, and disembodied hand, if the hand attacks some one, will I become visible or only the hand will?

[Agita]

Hi folks, I've a little question.

Why is the feat Flyby Attack so cool? You can move, attack, and move again without exceeding in total your movement speed (50'), I really don't see it so useful...

And other thing, if I use invisibility, and disembodied hand, if the hand attacks some one, will I become visible or only the hand will?

For one, it's great mobility - you can, say, fly into range, fire, and fly back out of range. For two, it has no feat prerequisites, so it literally only costs you a feat. For three, note that it lets you take any Standard action, not just an attack. So you could also fly into range, fire off an invocation, and fly away.

[InnaBinder]

For two, it has no feat prerequisites, so it literally only costs you a feat

This.  It lets fliers do what it takes two (for Ride-by Attack) or three (Spring Attack) feats to do when stuck on the ground.  One of the big advantages to flight in the game is the benefit of three dimensional mobility; Fly-by Attack highlights this benefit at the relatively low cost of one feat, whereas movement forms with less inherent benefit to mobility are forced to spend multiple feats for the same effect.  There are, of course, ways to get Fly-by Attack and its equivalents without paying for the feat(s) entirely, but Fly-by Attack is still cheapest and most often useful unless your group is always spelunking.

[Agita]

There are, of course, ways to get Fly-by Attack and its equivalents without paying for the feat(s) entirely, but Fly-by Attack is still cheapest and most often useful unless your group is always spelunking.

And even then, unless your maneuverability is bad, it's still at least as useful as either of the other X-By-Attacks (which is to say, admittedly, not very, as you don't have much room to fly by, but still.

[Cazador75]

Hmm, ok, I admit that it could be very useful in a fight.

About the other question? If I use Disembodied Hand and Walk Unseen at the same time, if the hand attacks someone, do I become visible or only the hand does?

[Ivory Knight]

You become visible too, I'd say.
The Hand may be not attatched to you, but it is no summoned monster(only exception I know off, where ysou stay invisible while your spells do damage).

[Cazador75]

But the hand has a separate HP and AC, doesn't that mean that it acts like other creature? Like when you summon something and control it...

[Ivory Knight]

Would you become visible, if your Spectral Hand delivers Vampiric Touch?
The Spell is pretty similar to the Invocation, since it also has 1d4 of your Hp & it's own AC.

[Cazador75]

Yeah, It's the same question...

[Ivory Knight]

The Spell reads like this in the SRD:

A ghostly, glowing hand shaped from your life force materializes and moves as you desire, allowing you to deliver low-level, touch range spells at a distance. On casting the spell, you lose 1d4 hit points that return when the spell ends (even if it is dispelled), but not if the hand is destroyed. (The hit points can be healed as normal.) For as long as the spell lasts, any touch range spell of 4th level or lower that you cast can be delivered by the spectral hand. The spell gives you a +2 bonus on your melee touch attack roll, and attacking with the hand counts normally as an attack. The hand always strikes from your direction. The hand cannot flank targets like a creature can. After it delivers a spell, or if the hand goes beyond the spell range, goes out of your sight, the hand returns to you and hovers.

Important part in bold, chances are your Invocation has the same bit of text somewhere in it's descirption(can't look it up right now, away from books).

[Cazador75]

DISEMBODIED HAND
Lesser; 4thdisembodied hand is destroyed, it regrows in 1d4 hours. At the end of this period, you regain the 5 lost hit points. Only one of your hands can be used for disembodied hand at any time; if your disembodied hand is destroyed, you can't use this invocation again until your hand regrows.

Nowhere does it say "attacking with the hand counts normally as an attack", it only says that you have to normally expend your time on your actions while directing it.

[Amechra]

Another way to get into Demonbinder is to be a Changeling with that racial emulation feat...

In all seriousness, while binding a Marilith, could you, let's say, create 2 Eldritch Glaives? Or would you be limited to 1 only?

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Hmmm... racial emulation lets you copy subtypes... is there any way to use that to enter Fiend of possession?

[snakeman830]

Hmmm... racial emulation lets you copy subtypes... is there any way to use that to enter Fiend of possession?

Only if you can find a Humanoid with an alignment subtype.  Changelings can only mimic those of the Humanoid type.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Incarnate construct + dustform + imp I think works.

[vrischika111]

DISEMBODIED HAND
Lesser; 4th
... The hand is considered a Diminutive creature ...

Nowhere does it say "attacking with the hand counts normally as an attack", it only says that you have to normally expend your time on your actions while directing it.

if it's considered a creature, then it becomes visible on its own (and only the hand)

[Cagemarrow]

I asked this in another warlock thread but maybe it would be better served here. Anyone know if Eldritch Theurge can be used to progress the arcane casting granted by Chameleon?

Was thinking something along the lines of Warlock 5/Chameleon 2/Eldritch Theurge 2 for a 9th level character. Would count as a 7th level warlock for invocations and a 4th level Chameleon (CL 8) for Arcane casting if I'm working it out right? You'd always have to use the arcane focus.