I'd say ring of spellstoring is super OP on hexblade because you can cast 5x shield into it since it doesn't upcast. Making it a +5 ac ring effectively.
Pro tip. Give your Warlock or Wizard's Familiar a wand of Magic Missiles. It is not an attack so they can use it and it happens on their turn independent of you.
New player playing a warlock here: How is that supposed to work? As far as I understand it I can either command my familiar to do something or take an action myself. If I don't command my familiar to do something, it can only move, correct? Or is it that the follower can't attack unless I tell it to do so, so seen as the wand isn't an attack, it can use that item independently from me commanding it to do so?
@@piccolo917 the familiar is dependent of you, it will always follow your orders but it is a creature that will act according to the situation. If you tell it to use the wand then it'll use it each turn until its empty or the wand runs out.
Add on Rod of the Pactkeeper and Staff of power and a mid/high level warlock(lvl 11-16)and your EB is sitting at +14-15 to hit for 6d10+30 damage when using both your action and bonus action to do this. 6d10+30 is almost as much as Disintegrate, but with the bonus +hit and the mechanics of Eldritch Blast, it's much better. Basically, imagine being able to cause damage comparable to Disintegrate for free. Edit: Also, being able to use the Repelling Blast invocation to push someone back 60 feet is ridiculous.
@@TheJaybrone Can't twin Eldritch Blast, at least not according to WotC themselves since it can target more than one creature. This is assuming you're level 5+.
I have a hexblade warlock and in one of our sessions I found a rod of absorption, I "absorbed" the rod of absorption as my pact weapon and summoned it back as my sword, now I can basically use it's energy points to cast my spells as long as I take care no to let it reach zero. My meager 2 spells slots are rarely used now.
Multiple things here are breaking the rules. 1. The rod is not a weapon and therefore can't be made into your pact weapon. 2. If you make a magic weapon into your pact weapon, you can't change its shape. A Dagger of Vemon can't be summoned as a Greataxe of Venom. 3. The rod has a limited lifespan and can only absorb a maximum of 50 levels worth of spells, which also means it can only every cast a maximum of 50 levels worth of spells. There is no recharging function on it or any sort of time based renewal.
@@mavoc3094 I agree, but we are not playing strictly by D&D rules, the DM asked us if we wanted to play a "more difficult D&D" in order to get better/modified magic items and we accepted, he has his own rules when it comes to the hexblade and a few other classes to make them more interesting, in exchange for that, the world we play in is a lot harsher and honestly I've been enjoying it, basic D&D can get stale after a few runs.
@@mavoc3094 All rods are considered quarterstaves by the game and do the same damage as a staff. You should be able to maker it a pact weapon by those rules.
@@JJRodriguez False, a staff is considered a quarterstaff, rods do not count as any weapon type RAW. --DMG p.140 Though a common houserule is to allow rods to count as a club.
The Birch Focus says "When you cast a spell that deals force damage using this item as your spellcasting focus, you gain a +1 bonus to *[ one damage roll ]* of the spell." which I believe means that it would only affect one of the beams of Eldritch Blast. It's still giving you damage but this is one instance where Eldritch Blast isn't multiple times better than another cantrip. Obviously it's still the only cantrip anyone ever takes that deals force damage though, so it still stands as a nice not-too-powerful low level item that's cool to receive.
Illusionist Bracers on a Warlock gets even more bonkers if the Warlock has the repelling blast and lancer of lethargy invocations. Each hit essentially takes 20ft of movement from the enemy. I once saw a Warlock solo a storm giant with this combo. Granted they were a blue dragonborn, but still.
My Sun Soul monk has a Ring of Shooting Stars. Me and my friend joined the game late so were given a very rare magic item to roughly balance the stuff the party had accumulated. I really liked the flavor of saying he can emit various different types of light from his fists. Radiant energy, fire, lightning, literal globules of light etc.
As much as I love theory crafting builds with equipment and stuff, I see way too many people white room imagine super powerful, and often impractical (example: equip only damage boosting items with no armor or utility), combinations that would be very unlikely to happen during a game. Rare items are just that, rare. Do not expect to have three of them on a character without having to grind the resources (or traverse the locations holding them) to get them, which would land the party with a lot of action and content with out those items being present. As stated in the video, masterwork quality items might only appear once, and legendary items are usually part of the endgame plot.
Something that I recently realised is that there's a lot of spells that don't even let you take a look to your spellcasting modifier. This actually makes low cha paladins, eldritch knights and arcane trickster surprisingly strong casters. So I am thinking about making a cleric that instead of doing any asi, everything is put into feats.
Thanks for the recommendation of the adventure book, Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Discerning adventurers might even find a couple magic spells authored by myself, Galder Fendt.
What, no Rod of Absorption? It extends your spell casting by 10 slots! Is it a "use in every fight" item? No. But against the BBEG or a dungeon boss having 10 extra non-Mystic Arcanums is amazing.
I question the applicability of the Shavarran Birch Focus to Eldritch Blast as you stated. First, Eldritch Blast doesn't have a material component, so I'm not sure if you CAN use the Focus to boost it as written. Second, even if you can use the Focus, you can only apply the damage boost to one damage role per casting of the spell. When you cast Eldritch blast at 5th, 11th, or 17th level, you make additional attack roles for the additional Blasts, but you still only cast the spell once, so only one blast could be boosted.
Yes, the description clearly states it applies to a single roll per cast, not per attack roll. Not sure how the video maker missed such an obvious ruling, definitely not a great way to start their guide off.
Might I recommend the (blank) of Blasting. Just a free use of Scorching Ray. For a class that has so few spell slots, any extra spells are fabulous. Plus, it does not require attunement.
Shavarann birch focus ads +1 to ONE damage dice. So if your eldritch blast does 3d10 damage, then with SBF it will be 2d10 + (1d10+1), not 3d10 + 3, otherwise it would be very powerful COMMON item. The ting is, because warlock makes ranged spell attack roll for each Eldritch blast dice (beam) you can chose to add +1 to one that hits
I love when someone in the party who isn’t a spell caster has a Ring of Spell Storing attuned and the spell casters in the party keep recharging it. That’s much more versatile than when a spell caster uses one to have more spells available.
Had an AL table where we all had rings of spell storing. 1.Rogue with Hex/hellish rebuke 2. Druid with hellish rebuke 3 Paladin with hellish rebuke/Shield 4 Cleric with hellish rebuke/shield 5 warlock with Spiritual Weapon/healing word. And the occasional Spell Smite to anyone. It is fun to hear "you gave that to him!" from the DM.
Pearl of Power and Wand of the War Mage are unnessesary for Warlock... Rod of the Pact Keeper (DMG) is the same rarity as the War Mage item, adds the bonus (uncommon +1, rare +2, v. rare +3) to spell attacks AND save DCs, AND you can use an action to regain a Warlock Spell Slot. Bam, two magic items in one... Yes War Mage let's you ignore cover, but still.
Iron flask can be great if you can get to the shadow realms. The Dark Mantel. I've been using it with my Warlock to either support vulnerable allies by making attacks against them have disadvantage or reduce the chances of being hit. Works wonders with devil's sight and shadow blade in melee if you want to be capable up close.
I just was in a one shot where i had to break my staff of power to try to kill and tarrasque and ancient dragon hybrid it didnt kill them but i got teleported away and survived and everyone else became a good Thanksgiving dinner
All of those magic focus from Eberron only work on one damage roll of the spell. So only the first eldritch blast would get the bonus. It does however, add to every bolt from Arcane Missile since you only roll one die for every bolt.
A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage. The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam. You only roll one die (both to hit and for damage) for each bolt. By your own logic the magic focus still works.
@@vincentandre8500 you're making a separate attack roll for each beam, that's still 2-4 dice rolls per spell cast. It will only apply to the first one. If you cast a level 9 arcane missile, that's 12 bolts but you only roll 1 d4 and apply the damage to every bolt. That is the difference and why it works with one and not the other.
@@hero3250 But that's not even how it works. You're supposed to roll more than 1d4 for Magic Missile. Some DMs will rule that you only use a single d4 and just multiply it, but that's a house rule so you don't need to roll 11 d4s at the max level and take up game time and ask literally everyone at the table for dice. You can do the same thing with Eldritch Blast. The focus never says that it's only limited by spell, it's limited by attack.
Scimitar of Speed for the hex blade. Bracers of Defense. It's really kind of weird how often the SOS is a good choice. Honestly it's one of the more useful defensive magic weapon choices, maybe even better than the Defender.
Why bracers of defense? They're attunement and only work if u're unarmored. Much better for a monk or barbarian, or one of those sorcerers with nat armor, or lizardfolk/turtles etc... for warlock a ring of protection is better.
I'm kind of surprised another common didn't make the list, the Dark Shard Amulet from Xanathar's Guide is extremely useful to have, the spell focus works with most subclasses, but the free use of any cantrip on the warlock list with an Int (Arcana) check makes it awesome. At lower levels, the Ruby of the War Mage is another one that is extremely useful, especially for bladelocks before they get the invocation for it.
for the ring of shooting stars. if you dont have a spell casting apility the DC of the faier fire is 8+0+proficiency as found in the DMG A magic item, such as certain staffs, may require you to use your own spellcasting ability when you cast a spell from the item. If you have more than one spellcasting ability, you choose which one to use with the item. If you don't have a spellcasting ability - perhaps you're a rogue with the Use Magic Device feature - your spellcasting ability modifier is +0 for the item, and your proficiency bonus does apply. its found in page 141 I know thats how they ruled it in Adventure league Kinda stupid having the DC for other feature right there but I tihnk the good news that the DC can be higher than 15 at later levels.
That's not a good alternative since it requires Concentration and is considerably more slow. OK outside of combat, but in combat Winged Boots are far superior.
I actually am about to start playing a warlock, so this list gives a lot of useful information on what to look out for. However I think it would have more impact with structure: I noticed a tendency to talk about conbinations of magic items, but most campaigns are unlikely to let you get a ton of combinations, so maybe if all the item combos were at the end: strong finish and each item stands in it's own.
For anyone curious, comboing action surge, illusionist's bracers, -hex- bestow curse, hexblade's curse, and eldritch blast would deal an *average* of 252 damage in a turn, from a range of 156-348 damage. I'm sure there's ways of maxing it out even further, too.
Hexblade bladepact is my favourite spellbow, and its a shame not mNy know/have thought of it. Biggest problem is it is invocation heavy. Need imporoved blade pact, thirsting blade, eldritch smite and lifedrinker (at 12th lv.) But it reallu does feel like a magic archer and is effective without using eldritch blast at all.
if you minor in sorceror for 3 levels then you can use metamagic to 1. twin eldritch blast doubling the amount of bolts and 2. quicken eldritch blast making it a bonus action so you can cast 3 eldritch blasts in a turn. at level 17, that is 12 eldritch blasts. it also only costs two sorcery points which is pretty small when you think about the output
I am pretty sure you can only get a bonus to attack or saving throw from a single item at a time even if you are attuned to multiple. You would have to choose which bonus is best for that situation. Otherwise it could get super broken with bounded accuracy.
Rod of absorption is quite powerful for warlocks, especially if a warlock has taken any invocation that allows them to cast a spell at will for "free". Stack up as many charges as you want (though never more than 49 because the magic item will become non-magical). One of the few ways to cast spells at a lower level for warlocks. It is also a solid defensive item against spells that target only you.
Though warlocks have few damaging spell options (compared to other spell casters), they do have other spells that can control the battlefield that otherwise may have been dropped after later levels.
Since casting out of the Spell Gem makes it an action. Even if it was longer to cast originally. This is fantastic for a Druid. Cast Druid Grove into it. Normally a 10 minute casting time. Cast it as an action in combat. Details determined at casting out of it.
As a hexblade Rogelock I prefer to use Armor of Shadows, base AC of 13 plus Dex modifier and you can still wear a Cloak of protection since it doesn't count as armor or equip a shield. Honestly I feel this is better than Hewards Hireling Armor since that's 11 plus dex modifier.
That armor really caught my attention 6 mini bags of holding?! Warlocks can make spell scrolls.wands and gems of power figurine of wondrous Power !and that,s 120 pounds of carry weigh all the items I just listed on there own do not weight a lot so with enough time and resources a warlock could be no par with most mid level casters ! And I think thats really cool
my current warlock build has a homebrewed invocation that gives 4 additional (specific) cantrips with the caveat that I don't have eldritch blast on my spell list.
there was a supplemental class book kickstarted not long ago called the masterclass codex with 14 new classes, I would love to see your take on those. There's a guy in my current group running a halfling morph from that book and it cuts a lot from the class to give him more options for polymorphing himself, but he acts kind of like a rogue
@@extreme_primus6884 Charged based casting on frost spells (which means they do not consume slots) that use the PC's own spell save DC. and pretty potent spells like Wall of Ice, Ice Storm, and Cone of Cold.
@@chainer8686 how and why? "Sorry but you can't spend hit dice rn, your characters incapable of patching themselves up rn" I can see long rests cause that's literally sleeping, but short rests? I like thise varient rules, theyre more realisitc than losing all your health and just sleeping it off instantly
@@elgatochurro well, what I mean is more about consequences. The players have the freedom to take short rests. However, if they take short rests too often, things keep happening around them; enemies get away, hostages could die, loot could be moved or changed or stolen, etc. The variant short rests are just optional stuff in the dungeon master's guide that has to be agreed on before starting the game.
It let's you cast the cantrip a 2nd time. Based on your level, it determines how many blasts you shoot. So if your 17th level, you can shoot 4 eldritch blasts. If you have illusionist bracers, that's 4 blasts with your action followed by another 4 blasts as your bonus action
9. Heward's Hireling Armor Havards Handy Haversack 8. Winged Boots 5. Spell Gem Products , Ring of spell storing, Pearl of power 4. Ring of Shooting Stars 1. Illusionist's Bracers
My level 3 warlock just got ring of mind shielding and couldnt be happier, his mind is his own, if hes lucky he has another voice in his head, and if he died he can go into the ring, evading his soul pact, and becoming a voice in the head of who gets it next He also just got the wand of the warmage +1
Dark Shard Amulet is also really good item! It's specific to Warlocks & requires attunment & it can be used as a spellcasting focus. Here's the fun ability. You can attempt to cast any cantrip that's on the Warlock spell list w/ a sucessful DC 10 INT Arcana check that you DON'T KNOW! If you fail the check, the spell also fails as does the use of the ability and you cannont do so again until you finish a long rest. For a common magic item, it's pretty good & the DC for casting a spell is really low! So you really only have to roll really shitty in order for this ability to fail. So, it makes your Warlock very verstaile w/ combat & role-playing.
Would you do top 10s specific to A. L.? For example, Ravnica isn't allowed. Eberron can't cross over to Faerun stuff, and common magic items basically don't exists except in a couple of mods.
I might somewhat behave if my DM offers me these Illusionist's Bracers for my Genie Warlock (they can add proficiency bonus in damage when they hit once per round, hence the weird 6 you're about to see) in the Tomb of Annihilation campaign we're about to start. By the end of the campaign, with just a hex, I could do 8d10 + 8d6 + 46 damage in a single round, for as long as my concentration holds (up to 24 hours). If my napkin math is right, that averages to 112, but min/max is 62-172. Without it I'd still be doing 4d10 + 4d6 + 26, which is 34-90, average 62. That's not terrible but it's pretty much free. Idk why people hate on warlocks so much. I have a Hexblade in a Curse of Strahd campaign too and I'm playing them completely differently, and I anticipate that they'll both be as useful and fun to play.
At the risk of rehashing previous videos, I don't see how the Blast Scepter didn't make the list Unlimited 4th Thunder Waves mean a lot with those limited slots and resistance to 🔥 and 🌩 are the icing on the cake
the secret to fixing the warlock slot be a fiend pact, have a devil as your patron, make soul contracts, have your own devil servants you damned to the hells yourself, bypass the uncontrollable nature of infernal calling, lord the fact that your contribution to the bloodwars is a greater service to the multiverse than anything the petty cleric preaching at you has ever done.
Wait... You say Wand of the War Mage and Staff of Power combine? You said with both of them you get a +5 bonus to spell rolls, but each item says "To spells when cast using THIS item" so the spell would get either the +2 or the +3... not both... Then later on you mention combing with the Rod of the Pact Keeper? Each item can be used individually, each one says with this item. Just letting anyone who thinks this works know, it does not...
I knew House Dimir was a thing in MtG, but I didn't know it was also in D&D. Does this mean the other Ravnica Guilds are a thing in D&D too? Gruul, Azorius, Selesnya, Orzhov, Simic, Boros, Rakdos, Izzet, and Golgari.
@@imofage3947 WotC released the sets Guilds of Ravnica followed by Ravnica Allegiance in 2019. Each set focused on five of the ten guilds... GRN (Guilds of Ravnica) was Boros, Dimir, Golgari, Izzet, and Selesnya. RNA (Ravnica Allegiance) had Azorius, Gruul, Orzhov, Rakdos, and Simic. And then, finally, after RNA came War of the Spark which takes place in Ravnica and is the "final" showdown against Nicol Bolas and features 36 Planeswalkers!
I think you can't tri-wield War Mage, Pact Keeper, and Staff of Power, as they all take effect "while holding;" you can use at most two of them at once (and indeed, I agree that Staff and Pact Keeper are the better two choices if possible.) I can't speak for others' characters, but I'm playing a winged tiefling, and I would hope a decent fraction of warlocks out there today are doing likewise. As such, winged boots become moot -- but Boots of Elvenkind become tasty, esp since they (are uncommon and) require no attunement! Sentinel Shield is another great (uncommon) no-attunement item, but alas, it requires being held as well, and so cannot stack with dual-wielded War Mage/Pact Keeper/Staff of Power, and you'd need some kind of shield proficiency (feat to get the skill or levels in another class, or something along those lines) along with War Caster to be able to deploy it while casting spells.
Oberstruhmfuhrer Schrodinger Tiefling tails are, sadly, not prehensile. They’re also larger than most people assume. It threw my DM and party off when introducing characters and my Tiefling warlock (not winged, sorry oneoftheorder) had a tail over four feet long. Hey, not my fault I used the Player’s Handbook to give me information about my character’s race.
Let's say you're a Hexblade with 2 levels in Fighter for action surge, +5 Charisma with the Agonizing Blast invocation, and the Hex spell. On level 20, you can fire 4 beams per cast, so 12 in total with an action surge and the Illusionists Bracers. Let's say the target has both the Hex spell and the Hexblade's Curse on it. This deals (without crits) a total of 12d10 + 12d6 + 12*(5+6) damage, or an average of 240. Oh and you crit on 19 or 20 soooo... O.O
If you have no spellcasting ability, your modifier is +0 and you don't add proficiency bonus. So, as a fighter, your spell attack bonus would be +0 and your save DC would be 8 when casting from a magic item that doesn't set its own.
For hexblade, the list is just a bunch of flametongues. I had a crit-happy double bladed scimitar hexblade build with elven accuracy and eldritch smite. I was going to go for sword of sharpness, then I realized flametongue does more damage even on a crit, and obviously while not critting. >->
I ignored archetypes in basically every video I've done. Hexblade warlocks are vastly different than any other warlock, so it didn't make sense to pick items specifically or a given subclass. These items were chosen so that any warlock watching the video could benefit from it, not just hexblades. Also it gives me the opportunity to make a "Top 10 D&D 5e Hexblade Magic Items" video in the future.
Why wouldn't you just use a Rod of the Pact Keeper instead of *both* the pearl of power and the wand of the war mage? The ignoring cover bonus is ignorable with spell sniper, and the rod gives +3 to attack *and* +3 to your save DC, plus using an action 1/long rest to regen a spell slot It's just kinda redundant
plus the rod of the pact keeper gets better after level 7, bcuz pearl of power gives you at most a 3rd level slot, rod of the pact keeper can recover 4 or 5 if you have those spell slots
@@samadams8533 unless you are playing some broken homebrew though you only have 2 hands rendering the wand uselessly redundant it's not even like the wand is cheaper
@@ShugoAWay i mean warcaster feat would let you wield both for up to a +6 bonus, but also more than 3 items in this video have attunement, so its assuming you arent getting all of these items. This video is about the best items for your warlock, and while a rod of the pact keeper is one of the best possible items to get, given your reliance on attack rolls more than any other spell casting class, warlocks make incredible use out of the wand. Yes the rod is better than the rod, that is why it is incredibly higher on the list, does not change that the wand is one of the most useful items the warlock can get.
@@samadams8533 just to add to this due to me looking at some additional things for fun i found the Wand sheath, which could allow you to wield 2 potential wands and a weapon in two hands.
Remember that if your party somehow gets a hold of both a +3 wand and a +3 rod, they'll never allow just 1 person to hog them both, unless a warlock is the only caster the party has.
Interesting how he didn't list the Robe of stars. you get free auto-hitting Magic Missile spells and since time doesn't flow on the Astral Plane, you can use your action to teleport there, rest and restore your spell slots, then return to the Material Plane recharged. I believe you could also spend a long rest in the middle of combat. Just action to the Astral Plane, long rest, and then use an action next turn to come back fully stocked.
I'm not a smart man, but I'm not sure how you wield a Staff in one hand, a Rod in the other, and a wand in your third. Mainly because you just dont have 3 hands.
Party finds a pair of Illusionist's Bracers
Wizard: "I call dibs"
Warlock: "So you have chosen death"
Boss music intensifies
Yeah, the wizard that tries taking those when there's a warlock in the party is getting locked in a small room with Hunger of Hadar.
It's a poor team member who calls dibs on an item that is far more useful to someone else
I would like to see a list for the hexblade specifically. I think it's so different from other subclasses it needs it's own list
So like optimal weapons for Pact Weapons, or I guess we could consider items from other classes being limited in armor and spell casting.
i agree
Just check the paladin list lol
I'd say ring of spellstoring is super OP on hexblade because you can cast 5x shield into it since it doesn't upcast.
Making it a +5 ac ring effectively.
Pro tip. Give your Warlock or Wizard's Familiar a wand of Magic Missiles. It is not an attack so they can use it and it happens on their turn independent of you.
New player playing a warlock here: How is that supposed to work? As far as I understand it I can either command my familiar to do something or take an action myself. If I don't command my familiar to do something, it can only move, correct? Or is it that the follower can't attack unless I tell it to do so, so seen as the wand isn't an attack, it can use that item independently from me commanding it to do so?
@@piccolo917 the familiar is dependent of you, it will always follow your orders but it is a creature that will act according to the situation. If you tell it to use the wand then it'll use it each turn until its empty or the wand runs out.
@@lockskelington314 hmm, that's very good to know. Thanks!
Ring of spellstoring allows you to give him 5th level damage spells.
@@the_man_leroy I like the way you think.
Can't help but imagine Ashley Johnson singing, "You got yor perfect Worlock."
With weapons and supplies.
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Illusionist bracers just turned a warlocks bread and butter, into bread and butter pudding. Slap on the damages.
Add on Rod of the Pactkeeper and Staff of power and a mid/high level warlock(lvl 11-16)and your EB is sitting at +14-15 to hit for 6d10+30 damage when using both your action and bonus action to do this. 6d10+30 is almost as much as Disintegrate, but with the bonus +hit and the mechanics of Eldritch Blast, it's much better.
Basically, imagine being able to cause damage comparable to Disintegrate for free.
Edit: Also, being able to use the Repelling Blast invocation to push someone back 60 feet is ridiculous.
A couple levels of sorcerer and twinned spell means even more eldritch blasts per turn.
@@TheJaybrone Can't twin Eldritch Blast, at least not according to WotC themselves since it can target more than one creature.
This is assuming you're level 5+.
TheJaybrone Try a single level dip into Fighter for Action Surge, then you can blast out 3 EBs in a turn since you can't twin EB.
@@GrondGrondGrondGrond *2 level dip for action surge.
I have a hexblade warlock and in one of our sessions I found a rod of absorption, I "absorbed" the rod of absorption as my pact weapon and summoned it back as my sword, now I can basically use it's energy points to cast my spells as long as I take care no to let it reach zero. My meager 2 spells slots are rarely used now.
Multiple things here are breaking the rules.
1. The rod is not a weapon and therefore can't be made into your pact weapon.
2. If you make a magic weapon into your pact weapon, you can't change its shape. A Dagger of Vemon can't be summoned as a Greataxe of Venom.
3. The rod has a limited lifespan and can only absorb a maximum of 50 levels worth of spells, which also means it can only every cast a maximum of 50 levels worth of spells. There is no recharging function on it or any sort of time based renewal.
@@mavoc3094 I agree, but we are not playing strictly by D&D rules, the DM asked us if we wanted to play a "more difficult D&D" in order to get better/modified magic items and we accepted, he has his own rules when it comes to the hexblade and a few other classes to make them more interesting, in exchange for that, the world we play in is a lot harsher and honestly I've been enjoying it, basic D&D can get stale after a few runs.
@@mavoc3094 All rods are considered quarterstaves by the game and do the same damage as a staff. You should be able to maker it a pact weapon by those rules.
@@JJRodriguez False, a staff is considered a quarterstaff, rods do not count as any weapon type RAW. --DMG p.140
Though a common houserule is to allow rods to count as a club.
The Birch Focus says "When you cast a spell that deals force damage using this item as your spellcasting focus, you gain a +1 bonus to *[ one damage roll ]* of the spell." which I believe means that it would only affect one of the beams of Eldritch Blast. It's still giving you damage but this is one instance where Eldritch Blast isn't multiple times better than another cantrip. Obviously it's still the only cantrip anyone ever takes that deals force damage though, so it still stands as a nice not-too-powerful low level item that's cool to receive.
Illusionist Bracers on a Warlock gets even more bonkers if the Warlock has the repelling blast and lancer of lethargy invocations. Each hit essentially takes 20ft of movement from the enemy. I once saw a Warlock solo a storm giant with this combo. Granted they were a blue dragonborn, but still.
My Sun Soul monk has a Ring of Shooting Stars. Me and my friend joined the game late so were given a very rare magic item to roughly balance the stuff the party had accumulated. I really liked the flavor of saying he can emit various different types of light from his fists. Radiant energy, fire, lightning, literal globules of light etc.
As much as I love theory crafting builds with equipment and stuff, I see way too many people white room imagine super powerful, and often impractical (example: equip only damage boosting items with no armor or utility), combinations that would be very unlikely to happen during a game. Rare items are just that, rare. Do not expect to have three of them on a character without having to grind the resources (or traverse the locations holding them) to get them, which would land the party with a lot of action and content with out those items being present. As stated in the video, masterwork quality items might only appear once, and legendary items are usually part of the endgame plot.
Something that I recently realised is that there's a lot of spells that don't even let you take a look to your spellcasting modifier. This actually makes low cha paladins, eldritch knights and arcane trickster surprisingly strong casters. So I am thinking about making a cleric that instead of doing any asi, everything is put into feats.
Thanks for the recommendation of the adventure book, Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Discerning adventurers might even find a couple magic spells authored by myself, Galder Fendt.
What, no Rod of Absorption? It extends your spell casting by 10 slots! Is it a "use in every fight" item? No. But against the BBEG or a dungeon boss having 10 extra non-Mystic Arcanums is amazing.
MY DUDE!
I question the applicability of the Shavarran Birch Focus to Eldritch Blast as you stated. First, Eldritch Blast doesn't have a material component, so I'm not sure if you CAN use the Focus to boost it as written. Second, even if you can use the Focus, you can only apply the damage boost to one damage role per casting of the spell. When you cast Eldritch blast at 5th, 11th, or 17th level, you make additional attack roles for the additional Blasts, but you still only cast the spell once, so only one blast could be boosted.
that makes it loose value quick
rhodar chaos *lose
Yes, the description clearly states it applies to a single roll per cast, not per attack roll. Not sure how the video maker missed such an obvious ruling, definitely not a great way to start their guide off.
Might I recommend the (blank) of Blasting. Just a free use of Scorching Ray. For a class that has so few spell slots, any extra spells are fabulous. Plus, it does not require attunement.
oooh i never even thought of “asking my patron” for winged boots. my aasimar celestial-lock would love it :-)
Protector aasimar get 1 minute of flight anyway once per long rest. I’ve never really needed more than that so far.
wizzardoffuzz i picked scourge aasimar for blasty blasty >:-)
Shavarann birch focus ads +1 to ONE damage dice. So if your eldritch blast does 3d10 damage, then with SBF it will be 2d10 + (1d10+1), not 3d10 + 3, otherwise it would be very powerful COMMON item. The ting is, because warlock makes ranged spell attack roll for each Eldritch blast dice (beam) you can chose to add +1 to one that hits
My first warlock had winged boots and bracers of defense.
I had a broom. She was also insane....she liked collecting hair....GOO...
Siculus Hort ... lol, GOO life
I love when someone in the party who isn’t a spell caster has a Ring of Spell Storing attuned and the spell casters in the party keep recharging it. That’s much more versatile than when a spell caster uses one to have more spells available.
I'm picturing Wizard Oprah now.
Had an AL table where we all had rings of spell storing.
1.Rogue with Hex/hellish rebuke
2. Druid with hellish rebuke
3 Paladin with hellish rebuke/Shield
4 Cleric with hellish rebuke/shield
5 warlock with Spiritual Weapon/healing word.
And the occasional Spell Smite to anyone.
It is fun to hear "you gave that to him!" from the DM.
Nicholas May sharing is caring! (also spiritual weapon warlock holy shittt)
Pearl of Power and Wand of the War Mage are unnessesary for Warlock...
Rod of the Pact Keeper (DMG) is the same rarity as the War Mage item, adds the bonus (uncommon +1, rare +2, v. rare +3) to spell attacks AND save DCs, AND you can use an action to regain a Warlock Spell Slot. Bam, two magic items in one... Yes War Mage let's you ignore cover, but still.
Tentacle whip isn't half bad for warlocks. With the improved pact weapon all three whip attacks get a +1, making it +3 damage in total.
Fun thing to dump smites into.
WINGED BOOTS!! Take a drink!
Everytime. He really should view them like the tomes.
@@Esproth Yup. The tomes are excluded because "they're good for everybody". It's the exact same thing for the boots.
Read a set of optimal builds for 5e, racial flight, and the lucky feat are almost unanimously useful, but there are exceptions.
Talking about non-hombrew, I agree with everything for the most part, I do agree Illusionist's Bracers is the top spot.
I like the idea of a warlock just being a crazy wand mage. Just wands all over that get dropped after all charges are used.
Sadly you can't, most require attunement
Unlimited wand works
NOICE, I was waiting for the warlock video.
A Broom of Flying would be more thematiclly appropiate for a Warlock.
I could not agree more. In addition to flying at will, it is also a more accessible option.
Iron flask can be great if you can get to the shadow realms. The Dark Mantel. I've been using it with my Warlock to either support vulnerable allies by making attacks against them have disadvantage or reduce the chances of being hit. Works wonders with devil's sight and shadow blade in melee if you want to be capable up close.
I just was in a one shot where i had to break my staff of power to try to kill and tarrasque and ancient dragon hybrid it didnt kill them but i got teleported away and survived and everyone else became a good Thanksgiving dinner
Calling it now, #1 has GOT to be illusionist's bracers.
Heh, called it.
All of those magic focus from Eberron only work on one damage roll of the spell. So only the first eldritch blast would get the bonus. It does however, add to every bolt from Arcane Missile since you only roll one die for every bolt.
A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage.
The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
You only roll one die (both to hit and for damage) for each bolt. By your own logic the magic focus still works.
@@vincentandre8500 you're making a separate attack roll for each beam, that's still 2-4 dice rolls per spell cast. It will only apply to the first one. If you cast a level 9 arcane missile, that's 12 bolts but you only roll 1 d4 and apply the damage to every bolt. That is the difference and why it works with one and not the other.
@@hero3250 But that's not even how it works. You're supposed to roll more than 1d4 for Magic Missile. Some DMs will rule that you only use a single d4 and just multiply it, but that's a house rule so you don't need to roll 11 d4s at the max level and take up game time and ask literally everyone at the table for dice. You can do the same thing with Eldritch Blast. The focus never says that it's only limited by spell, it's limited by attack.
@@MakeVarahHappen Jeremy crawford said you only roll one d4.
@@hero3250 That's because Jeremy Crawford inexplicably doesn't know the difference between multi-target attacks and aoe
Lol! I love the Top Ten videos!
Oh! Also- Tome of Leadership and Influence for that sweet +2 which can increase your main stat ABOVE 20!!!
These tuesday happen EVERY week !
Scimitar of Speed for the hex blade. Bracers of Defense. It's really kind of weird how often the SOS is a good choice. Honestly it's one of the more useful defensive magic weapon choices, maybe even better than the Defender.
Why bracers of defense?
They're attunement and only work if u're unarmored.
Much better for a monk or barbarian, or one of those sorcerers with nat armor, or lizardfolk/turtles etc... for warlock a ring of protection is better.
@@sovelisholimion fair, however I'm pretty sure it stacks with mage armor which Warlocks can get with an invocation.
I find that most people forget about the scimitar of speed.
I'm kind of surprised another common didn't make the list, the Dark Shard Amulet from Xanathar's Guide is extremely useful to have, the spell focus works with most subclasses, but the free use of any cantrip on the warlock list with an Int (Arcana) check makes it awesome.
At lower levels, the Ruby of the War Mage is another one that is extremely useful, especially for bladelocks before they get the invocation for it.
Thanks for the advice, great video
for the ring of shooting stars. if you dont have a spell casting apility the DC of the faier fire is 8+0+proficiency
as found in the DMG
A magic item, such as certain staffs, may require you to use your own spellcasting ability when you cast a spell from the item. If you have more than one spellcasting ability, you choose which one to use with the item. If you don't have a spellcasting ability - perhaps you're a rogue with the Use Magic Device feature - your spellcasting ability modifier is +0 for the item, and your proficiency bonus does apply.
its found in page 141
I know thats how they ruled it in Adventure league
Kinda stupid having the DC for other feature right there but I tihnk the good news that the DC can be higher than 15 at later levels.
Winged Boots are good, but don't forget that at lvl9 you can take the ascended step invocation for free self levitate
That's not a good alternative since it requires Concentration and is considerably more slow. OK outside of combat, but in combat Winged Boots are far superior.
I actually am about to start playing a warlock, so this list gives a lot of useful information on what to look out for. However I think it would have more impact with structure: I noticed a tendency to talk about conbinations of magic items, but most campaigns are unlikely to let you get a ton of combinations, so maybe if all the item combos were at the end: strong finish and each item stands in it's own.
For anyone curious, comboing action surge, illusionist's bracers, -hex- bestow curse, hexblade's curse, and eldritch blast would deal an *average* of 252 damage in a turn, from a range of 156-348 damage. I'm sure there's ways of maxing it out even further, too.
Hexblade bladepact is my favourite spellbow, and its a shame not mNy know/have thought of it. Biggest problem is it is invocation heavy. Need imporoved blade pact, thirsting blade, eldritch smite and lifedrinker (at 12th lv.) But it reallu does feel like a magic archer and is effective without using eldritch blast at all.
I play a druid warlock multi class, no eldrich blast! Can't wait to see if any of these would be good for her.
if you minor in sorceror for 3 levels then you can use metamagic to 1. twin eldritch blast doubling the amount of bolts and 2. quicken eldritch blast making it a bonus action so you can cast 3 eldritch blasts in a turn. at level 17, that is 12 eldritch blasts. it also only costs two sorcery points which is pretty small when you think about the output
I am pretty sure you can only get a bonus to attack or saving throw from a single item at a time even if you are attuned to multiple. You would have to choose which bonus is best for that situation. Otherwise it could get super broken with bounded accuracy.
Add on 8 levels in peace cleric for an extra 5 damage if you have high enough Wis.
This could be one terrifying warlock.
Should consider doing one of these specifically for hexblades they def use different items from a standard eldritch blast lock
Rod of absorption is quite powerful for warlocks, especially if a warlock has taken any invocation that allows them to cast a spell at will for "free". Stack up as many charges as you want (though never more than 49 because the magic item will become non-magical). One of the few ways to cast spells at a lower level for warlocks. It is also a solid defensive item against spells that target only you.
Though warlocks have few damaging spell options (compared to other spell casters), they do have other spells that can control the battlefield that otherwise may have been dropped after later levels.
How may Eldritch blasts is it if you also quicken with meta magic?
Since casting out of the Spell Gem makes it an action. Even if it was longer to cast originally. This is fantastic for a Druid. Cast Druid Grove into it. Normally a 10 minute casting time. Cast it as an action in combat. Details determined at casting out of it.
As a hexblade Rogelock I prefer to use Armor of Shadows, base AC of 13 plus Dex modifier and you can still wear a Cloak of protection since it doesn't count as armor or equip a shield.
Honestly I feel this is better than Hewards Hireling Armor since that's 11 plus dex modifier.
That armor really caught my attention 6 mini bags of holding?! Warlocks can make spell scrolls.wands and gems of power figurine of wondrous Power !and that,s 120 pounds of carry weigh all the items I just listed on there own do not weight a lot so with enough time and resources a warlock could be no par with most mid level casters ! And I think thats really cool
The staff of the magi is what I want in real-life
Or maybe the luck blade if it had max wish spells
my current warlock build has a homebrewed invocation that gives 4 additional (specific) cantrips with the caveat that I don't have eldritch blast on my spell list.
Will you be doing a list for the artificer?
He said during the sorcerer video that he will be doing it after the wizard video, then he'll go onto some popular homebrew classes
@@techwizsmith7963 excellent then I hope he does the chef eventually.
@@kyleprashek7056 yup 12/17, mark you calendars, that'll be the artificer video
7:00 - heh heh, warm age wand.
there was a supplemental class book kickstarted not long ago called the masterclass codex with 14 new classes, I would love to see your take on those. There's a guy in my current group running a halfling morph from that book and it cuts a lot from the class to give him more options for polymorphing himself, but he acts kind of like a rogue
great video, but one of my PC is an artificier and i don't know what give him whem they loot, could you make one for this class?
Ring of spell storing is way better than the pearl. You can have other casters cast spell into it for you.
The Staff of Frost has been giving my Celestial Warlock great mileage.
Oh? Please tell
@@extreme_primus6884 Charged based casting on frost spells (which means they do not consume slots) that use the PC's own spell save DC. and pretty potent spells like Wall of Ice, Ice Storm, and Cone of Cold.
Rod of Absorption!! It makes a Warlock a half caster in terms of spell slots!!
Take some short rests, they're quick and you refill high level spell slots
Some DMs limit how many short rests player can take, or play with different rules like a short rest being 8 hours and a long rest being a week.
@@chainer8686 how and why? "Sorry but you can't spend hit dice rn, your characters incapable of patching themselves up rn"
I can see long rests cause that's literally sleeping, but short rests?
I like thise varient rules, theyre more realisitc than losing all your health and just sleeping it off instantly
@@elgatochurro well, what I mean is more about consequences. The players have the freedom to take short rests. However, if they take short rests too often, things keep happening around them; enemies get away, hostages could die, loot could be moved or changed or stolen, etc. The variant short rests are just optional stuff in the dungeon master's guide that has to be agreed on before starting the game.
@@chainer8686 yeah i do that too, people search and patrol their dungeons, monsters look for prey
Can the illusionist bracers really let you cast 4 eldritch blasts per turn?
It let's you cast the cantrip a 2nd time. Based on your level, it determines how many blasts you shoot. So if your 17th level, you can shoot 4 eldritch blasts. If you have illusionist bracers, that's 4 blasts with your action followed by another 4 blasts as your bonus action
9. Heward's Hireling Armor
Havards Handy Haversack
8. Winged Boots
5. Spell Gem
Products , Ring of spell storing, Pearl of power
4. Ring of Shooting Stars
1. Illusionist's Bracers
Just confirming, you know they're all listed in the video description right?
My level 3 warlock just got ring of mind shielding and couldnt be happier, his mind is his own, if hes lucky he has another voice in his head, and if he died he can go into the ring, evading his soul pact, and becoming a voice in the head of who gets it next
He also just got the wand of the warmage +1
Dark Shard Amulet is also really good item! It's specific to Warlocks & requires attunment & it can be used as a spellcasting focus. Here's the fun ability. You can attempt to cast any cantrip that's on the Warlock spell list w/ a sucessful DC 10 INT Arcana check that you DON'T KNOW! If you fail the check, the spell also fails as does the use of the ability and you cannont do so again until you finish a long rest. For a common magic item, it's pretty good & the DC for casting a spell is really low! So you really only have to roll really shitty in order for this ability to fail. So, it makes your Warlock very verstaile w/ combat & role-playing.
Shavarran Birch Focus only applies to one of your E.Blast beams, not all of them.
Warlock for life. Cuthulu for life his not mine.
Would you do top 10s specific to A. L.? For example, Ravnica isn't allowed. Eberron can't cross over to Faerun stuff, and common magic items basically don't exists except in a couple of mods.
Been waiting for this one
How do you wield a wand, a rod, and a staff at the same time? ... Did I miss a rule somewhere and rods work just being in your procession?
I might somewhat behave if my DM offers me these Illusionist's Bracers for my Genie Warlock (they can add proficiency bonus in damage when they hit once per round, hence the weird 6 you're about to see) in the Tomb of Annihilation campaign we're about to start. By the end of the campaign, with just a hex, I could do 8d10 + 8d6 + 46 damage in a single round, for as long as my concentration holds (up to 24 hours). If my napkin math is right, that averages to 112, but min/max is 62-172.
Without it I'd still be doing 4d10 + 4d6 + 26, which is 34-90, average 62. That's not terrible but it's pretty much free. Idk why people hate on warlocks so much. I have a Hexblade in a Curse of Strahd campaign too and I'm playing them completely differently, and I anticipate that they'll both be as useful and fun to play.
i would trade the spell gem for the ring of spell storing. But thats for the list, saved them all to try and get it with my warlock
Watching again for a third time
It looks like that armor would be good for a Druid too.
I feel like there should be more comments on this video every time the DM says I get a magic item with a character I come back to one of these lol
Maaaan, that first one (#10) got me excited until I realised it won’t apply to my Genie Patron Warlock :P
At the risk of rehashing previous videos, I don't see how the Blast Scepter didn't make the list
Unlimited 4th Thunder Waves mean a lot with those limited slots and resistance to 🔥 and 🌩 are the icing on the cake
Doesn't the wand give +1 damage to one damage roll? Not all of them?
Yeah I think you may be right. I really hate the whole "per roll" thing, i think it's just confusing
Will you be doing Artificer?
Go Rambo with the illusionists bracers. You only have 1 hp left and you have two enemies flanking you? Shocking grasp them both, then book it.
the secret to fixing the warlock slot
be a fiend pact, have a devil as your patron, make soul contracts, have your own devil servants you damned to the hells yourself, bypass the uncontrollable nature of infernal calling, lord the fact that your contribution to the bloodwars is a greater service to the multiverse than anything the petty cleric preaching at you has ever done.
How is it 4 blasts per cast?
It is fun to try to play a Warlock without Eldritch Blast. It makes the class worse, but it is fun.
Such a damn good cantrip, what can u do
Faerie Fire DOESN'T ALLOW A SAVE. That's why no save DC is given for the Ring of Shooting Stars for that ability.
Wait... You say Wand of the War Mage and Staff of Power combine? You said with both of them you get a +5 bonus to spell rolls, but each item says "To spells when cast using THIS item" so the spell would get either the +2 or the +3... not both... Then later on you mention combing with the Rod of the Pact Keeper? Each item can be used individually, each one says with this item. Just letting anyone who thinks this works know, it does not...
I knew House Dimir was a thing in MtG, but I didn't know it was also in D&D.
Does this mean the other Ravnica Guilds are a thing in D&D too?
Gruul, Azorius, Selesnya, Orzhov, Simic, Boros, Rakdos, Izzet, and Golgari.
Yup. There was a book, Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica, a whole setting/adventure set in Ravnica for D&D 5e
@@NerdImmersion What year was it released? The original Ravnica: City of Guilds set in MtG was released around Oct 2005.
@@imofage3947 November 2018
@@imofage3947 WotC released the sets Guilds of Ravnica followed by Ravnica Allegiance in 2019. Each set focused on five of the ten guilds... GRN (Guilds of Ravnica) was Boros, Dimir, Golgari, Izzet, and Selesnya. RNA (Ravnica Allegiance) had Azorius, Gruul, Orzhov, Rakdos, and Simic. And then, finally, after RNA came War of the Spark which takes place in Ravnica and is the "final" showdown against Nicol Bolas and features 36 Planeswalkers!
I think you can't tri-wield War Mage, Pact Keeper, and Staff of Power, as they all take effect "while holding;" you can use at most two of them at once (and indeed, I agree that Staff and Pact Keeper are the better two choices if possible.)
I can't speak for others' characters, but I'm playing a winged tiefling, and I would hope a decent fraction of warlocks out there today are doing likewise. As such, winged boots become moot -- but Boots of Elvenkind become tasty, esp since they (are uncommon and) require no attunement! Sentinel Shield is another great (uncommon) no-attunement item, but alas, it requires being held as well, and so cannot stack with dual-wielded War Mage/Pact Keeper/Staff of Power, and you'd need some kind of shield proficiency (feat to get the skill or levels in another class, or something along those lines) along with War Caster to be able to deploy it while casting spells.
oneoftheorder hold one in each hand and one in your tail or mouth like zoro
Oberstruhmfuhrer Schrodinger
Tiefling tails are, sadly, not prehensile. They’re also larger than most people assume. It threw my DM and party off when introducing characters and my Tiefling warlock (not winged, sorry oneoftheorder) had a tail over four feet long. Hey, not my fault I used the Player’s Handbook to give me information about my character’s race.
Let's say you're a Hexblade with 2 levels in Fighter for action surge, +5 Charisma with the Agonizing Blast invocation, and the Hex spell. On level 20, you can fire 4 beams per cast, so 12 in total with an action surge and the Illusionists Bracers. Let's say the target has both the Hex spell and the Hexblade's Curse on it. This deals (without crits) a total of 12d10 + 12d6 + 12*(5+6) damage, or an average of 240. Oh and you crit on 19 or 20 soooo... O.O
you miss calculated a lvl 2 fightet hasn't inproved crit yet
chaos hexblades curse brings the targest crit range down to 19 or 20.
If you have no spellcasting ability, your modifier is +0 and you don't add proficiency bonus. So, as a fighter, your spell attack bonus would be +0 and your save DC would be 8 when casting from a magic item that doesn't set its own.
Wouldn't the magic initiate feat, ritual caster feat, and certain subclasses add a spell casting ability?
For hexblade, the list is just a bunch of flametongues.
I had a crit-happy double bladed scimitar hexblade build with elven accuracy and eldritch smite.
I was going to go for sword of sharpness, then I realized flametongue does more damage even on a crit, and obviously while not critting. >->
20 pounds is about 60 medium sized apples, so that leather armor can carry about 360 apples in it's pockets.
These are the D&D facts we need
i have tried to homebrew a hexblade weapon option for warlock and when i saw your list you almost completly ignored that archetype why did you
I ignored archetypes in basically every video I've done. Hexblade warlocks are vastly different than any other warlock, so it didn't make sense to pick items specifically or a given subclass. These items were chosen so that any warlock watching the video could benefit from it, not just hexblades. Also it gives me the opportunity to make a "Top 10 D&D 5e Hexblade Magic Items" video in the future.
I think a pergrine mask ( I think that’s what it’s called, is better than winged boots
So a warlock can get +1 ammunition? 😆 good common item
You couldn’t have the wand the rod and the staff at the same time though could you?
as it turns out you can by using the Wand sheath.
Why wouldn't you just use a Rod of the Pact Keeper instead of *both* the pearl of power and the wand of the war mage? The ignoring cover bonus is ignorable with spell sniper, and the rod gives +3 to attack *and* +3 to your save DC, plus using an action 1/long rest to regen a spell slot
It's just kinda redundant
plus the rod of the pact keeper gets better after level 7, bcuz pearl of power gives you at most a 3rd level slot, rod of the pact keeper can recover 4 or 5 if you have those spell slots
Yeah that's what everyone who actually uses warlock is trying to explain to him
Wand of war mage should have been the pact rod it is way better version
which is why it is higher on the list.....
@@samadams8533 unless you are playing some broken homebrew though you only have 2 hands rendering the wand uselessly redundant it's not even like the wand is cheaper
@@ShugoAWay i mean warcaster feat would let you wield both for up to a +6 bonus, but also more than 3 items in this video have attunement, so its assuming you arent getting all of these items. This video is about the best items for your warlock, and while a rod of the pact keeper is one of the best possible items to get, given your reliance on attack rolls more than any other spell casting class, warlocks make incredible use out of the wand. Yes the rod is better than the rod, that is why it is incredibly higher on the list, does not change that the wand is one of the most useful items the warlock can get.
@@samadams8533 just to add to this due to me looking at some additional things for fun i found the Wand sheath, which could allow you to wield 2 potential wands and a weapon in two hands.
Remember that if your party somehow gets a hold of both a +3 wand and a +3 rod, they'll never allow just 1 person to hog them both, unless a warlock is the only caster the party has.
Interesting how he didn't list the Robe of stars.
you get free auto-hitting Magic Missile spells and since time doesn't flow on the Astral Plane, you can use your action to teleport there, rest and restore your spell slots, then return to the Material Plane recharged.
I believe you could also spend a long rest in the middle of combat. Just action to the Astral Plane, long rest, and then use an action next turn to come back fully stocked.
I’m playing a fiend sorlock and boi do I want a staff of fire
I'm pretty sure very rare gives you +2 as a common item doesn't give a bonus
I'm not a smart man, but I'm not sure how you wield a Staff in one hand, a Rod in the other, and a wand in your third. Mainly because you just dont have 3 hands.