Genie Patron: Tasha's Warlocks
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0:00 Intro
1:11 The Genie Patron
1:50 Expanded Spells
6:24 Genie's Vessel/Bottled Respite (1st)
9:25 Genie's Wrath (1st)
11:37 Elemental Gift (6th)
12:37 Sanctuary Vessel (10th)
13:46 Limited Wish (14th)
15:09 Conclusion
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I’m of the opinion that, if you just look at mechanics, the Marid patron is the current best option in the game for making a warlock of Santa Claus. Genie patron overall gives you a magic bag that’s bigger on the inside, you get access to spells like Detect Naughty and Nice (Detect Evil and Good) or Create Cookies and Milk (Create Food and Water), you get that fly speed, and Marid specifically gives cold resistance. Additionally, I’d suggest Pact of the Tome for this build, because those new Tome-exclusive invocations literally involve making a list and checking it twice. And finally, while it’s not the best choice for a warlock to use as their combat cantrip, Magic Stone lets you chuck lumps of coal.
The optimization we really needed all along! I, for one, welcome our new Santalock overlords
How does your neck support such a big brain
Santa as a Patron and the Warlock is a Mall Santa
Pact of the Chain for an Imp named Rudolph?
Additionally, creation lets you make a bunch of presents, sleet storm can make it snow, and limited wish, as well as the wish spell, let you grant any wish on your list!
The thing I like most about the Genie is that it's a Warlock patron that really rewards you for going straight Warlock. You get good features all the way through, rather than getting incredible nonsense at level 1 and then barely anything. I think and hope this will lead to more viable pure warlock builds.
I for one like the front load of features for some Warlocks, multiclass in another class from an story perspective should be strong, and it open interesting doors, but he'll, this warlock looks dope to play as a mono class, i wouldn't mind more of them.
@@nicolasvillasecaali7662 more clssses should focus on tier two and three. This is where most games that I play happen anyways. I hope they focus on the middle game more in the future
@@cyberpunkalphamale That's a little melodramatic
If it weren’t for the Aberrant Mind this would absolutely be my favorite subclass in Tasha’s. I get that the clerics are both OP but the flavor of these two subclasses is so good.
The GenLock is so consistent with itself. Elemental damage & resistance, the hover & fly ability, the vessel, wish & limited wish - it does EXACTLY what it should to capture the idea of a consort to a powerful genie, and one specifically tied to a given elemental plane.
One thing I didn’t hear you mention is that going pact of the chain, having your Imp pick up your Vessel, allows them to fly you around invisibly wherever you want while sleeping or just to get into a small place.
The Iago strategy
@Alaberti you/your DM better get practicing your Gilbert Godfrey impression! Wonder what the limits on using a chain pact familiar to cast spells from within the vessel are?
Make sure you take Voice of the chain master.
I’m using Rogue (Swashbuckler) 3/Warlock (Genie) with the Athlete feat as an Aladdin build. Going more classic tale than Disney though so no Abu. I WILL try to get a carpet though!
@@studynot757 I like the idea of a rogue build, the single attack style combines well with elemental wrath. The proficiency bonus to damage is roughly equal to an extra sneak attack die. And bottled respite is fantastic for infiltration, just get your friendly local barbarian to yeet you.
Wondering about the timing of this:
Cast Galdurs speedy courier, name destination person, go into vessel, have familiar put vessel in chest and close lid. Dismiss and recall familiar at destination. 25 GP transport to anyone on your plane.
Cheap teleportation but with the potential risk of being locked within your own vessel, as a classic genie.
"...any items not taken from the chest reappear on the ground at your feet."
If I understand that correctly, if the targeted person doesn't open the chest and the spell ends your vessel will reappear in front of you, while you are still inside your vessel. So if you leave your vessel, you will reappear in your vessel with your vessel in your hand.
If you are lucky this paradox would open a gate to the Astral Plane. Otherwise, keep some spare coins within your vessel, recast the spell, and pray for the next targeted person to open the chest.
Gotta say, warlocks made out *really* well in Tasha's. The new boon, invocations and spells are a benefit to patron options from other books, and the Eldritch Versatility gives you the option to have a major rebuild of your character at every ASI.
Tomelocks can still communicate with people outside their vessel if they take the Far Scribe invocation, as Sending works across planar boundaries - albeit with a 5% failure rate. Extra useful if you get your DM to let you put your familiar's name in the book, so you can issue commands to it while it carries the vessel.
One feature I think you didn't mention is - "if the vessel is destroyed, every object stored there harmlessly appears in the unoccupied spaces closest to the vessel’s former space." The fact that you can voluntarily destroy the vessel by summoning a new one makes this an interesting way of smuggling whatever fits in the vessel into a space you (or a familiar) can carry it into. Think incriminating evidence, explosives, jail-breaking equipment, etc.
Well, you can also fill it with stuff that has the potential to kill, e.g. boulders, 20x20ft of water, acid (this might require an errata - does damage from the inside destroy the vessel), poisioned gas, heck lava or creatures (preferably undead since they won't complain about being squished together or lack of food) is an option. Your vessel basically becomes anything between a Molotov cocktail to a bomb to a zombie spawner at that point.
@@ITelefonmanI Correct! Though you might need to wait to level 10 to take anything living in there. And I guess your DM might wonder how you're carrying ~700000 liters of acid into the lamp, but that's just a detail 😄 I think the potential for using the vessel in this way is huge.
@@matthewdebeer8453 Have your artificer buddy pour the contents of his alchemy jug in there, 8 ounces at a time... It will take less than 3 million days
just hope the compartment of your ring doesn't break while you smuggle it inside your butt. :P
Also handy for sneaking into a library in your friend's pocket and then smuggling out a load of books!
One thing to note (subject to DM) is the 14th level ability says the "spell simply takes effect" and it says nowhere that you cast it so the spell can't be counterspelled.
Spike Growth plus Repelling Blast plus Grasp of Hadar, maybe with Crusher in there, too, and your Daolock becomes a cheese-grater against any non-flying opponents. And if they don't have ranged attacks, they'll tear themselves to pieces trying to reach you, too.
If you went Variant Human with the Crusher Feat and took the Eldritch Adept feat (so you have Repelling Blast, Grasp of Hadar and Agonizing Blast, ensuing that you keep the enemy in the middle of the cheese grater) at level 4 you could do some serious damage when you hit level 5. (Assuming +3 CHA)
You'd end up doing 2d10 + CHA(6) + GW (3) + 10d4 for an average of 45 points of damage, not including the damage that the enemy would incurr from moving through the spikes on their own turn. A fireball at the same level has an average damage of 28.
Pact of the chain Genie lock with an invisible imp carrying the whole party in the vessel at 60ft flying speed? Poor DMs thinking that crossing the dungeon was a challenge.
I actually plan to make a Genasi as my PC, but actually I will play as if the Sprite (or Imp, still deciding) were the actual PC, and the Genasi follows the orders of the familiar. I'll check with the DM how we can make this work.
@@PedroHISilva This is a wonderfull idea I might steal from you.
Go for it and tell us here how it was. :)
Man I didn't even think about the Dao + Crusher combo, that sounds cool as hell.
to be useful (other then the move into air thing), you'd have to guess if you use the bludgeon damage on this attack or the next, if you get multiple blasts.
because you want the bludgeon damage when you crit, and you can add that damage only once per turn.
when the first blast doesn't crit but hits, you have to decide: do i use that damage now to be sure to add that extra damage or should i gamble for the next hit to add the bludgeon damage, because it could become a crit... but i could also miss...
not a big fan of that idea. and most of the time, you can't use the advantage yourself, because the non-last blast has to crit, to have advantage in your own turn.
@@mahe4 Genie's Wrath says "when you hit with an attack roll, you can deal extra damage to the target". I'd interpret that as adding the damage to an attack once you know it's a hit.
@Alaberti okay fair enough. it's definitly a nice feature, none the less.
but the "moving into air" part, i wouldn't allow and as far as i know wouldn't work RAW, because every "fall" is resolved the instance it happens, so you can't combine repelling blast and the crusher feats movement.
it's still good, to push your enemies better around.
@@Brion57042 i would interpret it the same way.
but you still don't know, if your next blast could crit, and you rather keep your bludgeon damage for your next blast.
@@mahe4 don’t all bolts hit at the sane time? It’s not a multiattack action i mean, just multiple attack rolls
And can’t you add the movement of both repelling blast AND crusher to a single bolt?
Most people w/ the lamp: I can store some stuff we find in here, we can take breaks in here! This is great!
Me w/ the lamp: Alright folks that's all my spell slots I'll see you when the fights over. >Shoop
While I’m more likely to separate magically going in there and it just being a normal bottle. So use it like a Molotov and fill the magical container with explosives.
Especially good when your familiar from Pact of the Chain protects your vessel, since it otherwise yould be destroyed.
Great video! I think you are slightly underrating the L10 ability. If safe long rests aren't an issue for the party, then you gain the ability to provide a nearly instant "extra" short rest that the DM basically can't disallow or disrupt. That means more spell slots than usual for you, more wild shapes than usual for the druid, more ki than usual for the monk, etc.
Also, I want to mention the multiclass concept I'm currently playing: Dao-Lock 17/Echo Knight 3. I'm only at L3 now, but when I hit L6 I'll be pinging all over the battlefield, pushing/pulling foes into my Spike Growth. Can't wait!
You did not mention a potential combination with this patron and pact. If you go with the pact of the chain, you can have your familiar move you while you are in your vessel. If you combine this with the sanctuary vessel feature, you could have your imp familiar move your entire party through a dungeon while invisible.
@@sharkforce8147 I guess an invisible flying party in a tiny object wouldn't trigger traps, but yeah, I hear ya
Not mentioned in the video, but a ring/pendant vessel for a pack of the chain could use the Sanctuary Vessel for the party while your invisible imp is wearing the jewelry while flying around invisibly. Long rest relatively safely while still traveling!
Hell yeah! I'm currently playing a Mountain Dwarf/Dao-Crusher/Pact of the Blade/Maul and having loads of fun on the front-line. He has only 12 Charisma and is still a completely viable build as there are plenty of spells that don't require a save or spell attack. The PAM Paladin loves me but I think the DM doesn't.
Big fan of Dao Warlock, the bludgeoning resistance might be one of the best resistances imo. Out of combat this could help with many traps and especially falling hazards, while in combat bludgeoning is a consistent threat (weapons and secondary damage from many effects like being thrown). Makes this Warlock a decent punching bag!
oh, didn't even think of falling damage
quite helpful if you break concentration while flying
Dao is THE BEST genie by far eh?
And additionally it is a good choice for any meele character multiclass. For example, should you want a Paladin without Hexblade or a Fighter with some magical powers or something like that. I think, what is also interesting is a Fire Genasi Marid Genie Warlock being umaffected by any extreme Weather like heat or coldness, since you resist both cold and fire damage. The only thing that annoys me is how you are punished for doubling down, for example a Fire Gemase Efreeti only gains one damage resistance and not two
@@Booklat1 It's worth noting that Elemental Gift straight up gives you a (10 min) flying ability, not the _Fly_ spell, and it does _not_ require concentration.
I'd already decided to use the Genie patron for my next character, but I'd never considered the value of the vessel as a storage unit and a spellcasting focus. But my build is very much inspired by your Voice from Beyond video from a few months back.
Variant Human Rogue with the Actor feat, Genie Warlock for levels 2 and 3 to take Mask of Many Faces and Devil's Sight, and then most of the rest will be a Soulknife Rogue. I'm very excited to play a Rogue that can hide in his ring, change his face at will, and is always armed thanks to the Psychic Blades.
I don't plan on taking Eldritch Blast, as I'll focus on Rogue combat stuff, but it should have very high out of combat utility. Especially if I eventually take Warlock 3 for probably Pact of the Tome... Rogue with Guidance here I come!
Yay! This one has been awaited!
I love Bottled Respite. It's such a cool feature, especially if you design it like a minor Magnificent Mansion, considering that the internal space of the interior is quite large. 12 metre diameter and a 6 metre height means you can have two floors if you want/clear it with the DM.
Spike Growth is a fantastic spell for Warlocks that have taken the Crusher Feat and one or both of the invocations that push or pull an event hit with Eldritch Blast. Even if you had just the crusher feat, agonizing blast and the push invocation you would be doing incredible amounts of damage for just a level 3. 1d10+CHA+2(GW)+6d4 from Spike Growth. It's still an amazing combo even at higher levels when you are soaring through the air and launching three eldritch blast at a target to push and pull them across the spikes, not even counting them moving on their own turn.
Hospitality Halfling or Chef feat and we got our self a food cart warlock.
How does the introduction of Tasha's impact your assessment of the older published material? If you are grading classes and subclasses on a curve, I reckon a lot of the old material has lost a rank or two because of this new material, perhaps to the point were a significant amount of the older content slipping into a red rating. When you get to the end of Tasha's it might be an interesting point in the summary of how Tasha's will/has change(d) 5e
I agree.
YES!!! I have been waiting for this for weeks!
Genie has been my most looked forward to Subclass for a very long time. So glad it made the cut into TCE
I just want more Desert Inspired Subclasses. So cool
I've been working on a Swarmkeeper ranger that is a Mulhorand (D&D Egypt) Tabaxi. I've been thinking of using scarabs for the swarm, but I could go more biblical and use locusts (I haven't settled on my character's background and fluff yet).
Same, I like class tied to their settings (land/environment/theme), specifically for warlock since i main them.
For example, Desert Genie, Ocean fathomless, Hell Fiend, Forest Archfey, Catacombs Undying, Physchological thriller GOO, battlefield/indiana jones hexblade
I've also started to love these deserst-ish themes. What's even better is that it's still versatile enough to not be desert locked either! That's how I love my subclasses; inspired by/inspiring for an interesting theme, but able to work for other themes just as well.
I can see someone with a ring vessel entering it and getting their party to slip it onto a bad guy's person so they can spy or sneak in somewhere.
For me the first spell that came to mind on the Limited Wish spell was Tenser Transformation or Tasha Otherworldly Guise for a pact of the blade Warlock, yeah yeah i know is not Hexblade, but we can make a Blade warlock without hexblade you know.
But the BEST spell bar none for this feature is Otto's Irresistible Dance, lets roleplay Alladin Genie as was intended.
mountain dwarf is ok with pact of the blade
easy enough to get heavy armor and booming blade mixed with some blasting abilities
fiend, and now dao/efreet should be the best patrons for this build
not crazy good, but mountain dwarves are pretty tanky casters, mixing in melee might be a possibility like it is for some clerics
Multiclasses I would seriously consider would be anything which benefits greatly from a short rest. Bottled respite would allow a decent chance of the character gaining the benefits of a short rest when the other players would perhaps want to continue adventuring (e.g. traveling). Picks I have in mind include fighters (action surge, second wind, maneuvers) and monks (Ki). If the character can use the feature well they can really maximize their use of short rest resources.
know this is gonna be a banger.
This subclass breaks Glyph of Warding. Just stack them up inside your extradimensional space with every possible buff. Pop in, buff up, pop out, and wreck face. The spells cast this way don't even require concentration. Toss in a couple heal spells and you are back to full power. Later on you can do this with the whole party. Can even use limited wish to create free 6th level glyphs.
Limited Wish states it must be a 1 action casting. You have to wait until Wish to cast them yourself.
My fav Chain pact lock. Imp that goes invis and allows us to see outside of our lamp. the lil guy just casts touch spells thru you and what not. However ask your dm to change the dmg type of the sting, and WOTC stop being stupid and try to make poison good. it wont ever be. But yea, chain familiars are great with this thing since you can always hop back into it for a short rest and look thru your chain familiar eyes. also theres some unique interaction you can have with say, a bank heist where you can essentially have a character to sell your lamp with your party inside, clear the vault out into the lamp and go invisible with an imp
leave in the confusion
this warlock is also the warlock i choose for Elder Elemental flavor pacts, unless its leviathan, that goes to fathomless.
I am so excited to see this subclass finally come out. I love the concept and had the idea of a Genasi Warlock with a Genie parent as a patron for quite a while. I'd probably lean away from the evil aligned ones because of my roleplaying preferences but if the Dao options are that good I might be tempted.
A ring is probably the best form for your vessel. It's the easiest to carry around or to hide. It's the smallest target to hit (Called shot to his ring finger? I don't think so.) And if your warlock get's thrown in jail, you can stick your hand trough the bars and enter your vessel. The ring then falls to the ground, and when you emerge you're outside your cell.
Well yes and somewhat no: The AC of the Vessel is unaffected by the choice, but otherwise I agree
I'm really really interested in playing this subclass at some point. I've been kind of waiting for a subclass that gets me really super excited from the warlock class, and this gave me that.
Okay so, if you blow your spells as a Warlock and your party does not want to short rest... (Warlock's curse) can you have a party member carry your lamp while you take a short rest in the lamp, popping out once finished while the party continues on? (If they're walking to a town or something)
That Genie's Vessel is a cylinder, 20' radius. That's 40' across. A 20' radius space with a 10' roof is about as much space as a small 2 bedroom apartment in the US.
I drew it up on a battlemap; bedroom, bath, kitchen, living room, storage room, library. And depending on your DM's interpretation of how a bag of holding works, you could have a storage room lined with bags of holding inside your genie bottle.
Limited Wish is really fun for blanket access to spells that are useless until suddenly they really, really aren't. Water Breathing is a good example -- someone's whiffed a Teleport and now you're 18 miles out to sea, or you just got planeshifted to the Elemental Plane of Water, or any other circumstance where you've suddenly been dropped into a place where breathing is suddenly a concern where it wouldn't normally be. Protection from Evil and Good is niche but if you're facing fiends outside of campaigns where you would normally face fiends having access to it is pretty darn great. Remove Curse is almost always prepared reactively, which is really nasty if the curse in question is fast-acting. When you need it gone suddenly, you can make it gone suddenly.
I agree. Rather than trying to boost the power of my combat even further, I think I would dedicate this feature to a catalogue of useful "niche spells."
This subclass has me actually considering playing a warlock; I'd always thought they were neat but not really interesting to me before, but this really caught my imagination for some reason.
I like the idea of a snow globe charm that hangs around the neck of my cat familiar.
elves can take long lamp rests at 1 level =P
Ring's lack of handedness also is incredibly useful if by some circumstance your hands end up being full. Like let's say shield and wand of the warmage. The others more or less have to be carried.
That limited wish is super powerful but very difficult to use as it requires significant player knowledge of basically all spells lvl 6 or lower, definitely not new player friendly.
But if they’ve played a campaign through to level 14 then they’ve probably been playing for a year at that point, and so might have a better idea of spells available.
Also, there are enough youtube videos on spell recommendations that I wouldn’t be too worried.
@@christophersmith6510 I dunno, I've been playing for years with a variety of different characters and classes and I don't think I can even name all the spells lvl 6 or lower, let alone know what they did!
Seems like an expert view on this could be a whole video of its own...
True, it's tough to be able to take maximum advantage of the possibilities, but you can always familiarize yourself with a few options for different situations - and then build your 'vocabulary' from there. Not a lot of downside, IMHO, for tremendous up-side potential
Dude. The ability to cast any 6th level spell or lower combined with a 1/day not-a-demiplane from level 1 is absolutely insane. Just slap glyphs of warding full of healing and buff spells inside of that thing over a month and boom, you're pulling off 17th level cheese tactics at level 10 lol
That could be amazeballs!
Wow I never thought about glyphs of warding, the wish ability has no material component requirements right? Pick the Efreeti Genie and stockpile Fireball glyphs for like a month. You can't really move glyphs though so you'd all have to put a bunch of them in one place and find a way to get the BBEG to go there
Great subclass. 2nd best warlock subclass imo after the hexblade.
That ones awesome. If you have a familiar in the party, e.g. an owl, you can have it carry your lamp, party inside, during your long rest, safely traveling while resting.
Probably i'm not the first, but with the pack of the change you can travel sagety by the time your party is in the vessel (a ring for exemple). Also the imp can be invisible so you can easily sneak a dongeon and pop out directly in the front of the boss. The imp have also devil's sight so darkness is not a issue.
If you follow a Dao, you can meld into stone your party.
This one of the best Warlock patron with the Hexblade
Great video. 100%.
Are you thinking of making a Genie Warlock Build video?
For sure
Sweet, new video!
I use my genie as an eldritch sniper. I took the spell sniper feat and eldritch spear invocation. I can now fly up 500-600ft above the battlefield, heavy obscure myself with shadow of moil, and rain down eldritch blasts at advantage with my 600ft range.
With a flying speed of only 30 feet, it's going to take you 17-20 rounds to get that high (or half that if you forgo your actions and just Dash). The fight will be long over by then!
I have player who is this and damn are they are a power house he is a pact of the blade super good
Also
A wizard with a one level one dip into this is also really good cause you can just hoard spell books and scrolls
Hey Chris, could we get an optimized build of this? I'm struggling to figure out what to do as far as race, when & which direction to multiclass (do I really need Limited Wish, or is Elemental Gift & Sanctuary Vessel enough?), being a little MAAD, & unsure of what my job in the party should be. Would love to see your take on it (loved the team up you did with Colby at D&D:O on the Rune Knight/ Genie Warlock, I'm just looking for a few of these higher level subclass features). Put it on the list please!
It should be noted that bringing your party with you inside your extradimensional Genie's Vessel can be catastrophic if anyone is carrying a bag of holding or similiar item.
You want to play a Grung, or a Locatah?
The lamp has a comfortable interior - It has water inside.
It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
Grung yes, locatah no... sadly the locatah need to submerge themselves every 4 hours and you can only enter the vessel once a day...
Genie's Vessel is super amazing and flavourfull. I made a character that is supposed to get interesting items and the like for their patron and one big option I saw here is that you can get into the vessel and let another character gift the vessel to someone. They might store it in their secure treasury place, where you can get out, take their stuff and then have to break out, which should be easier than breaking in.
This can be used similarly for espionage.
Also Elfs can use it for long rests at level 1.
You might also be able to decorate it further offering the possibility for crafting or just a pool or something like that for relaxiation.
Great example of a feature that is strong but not in a purely number mechanics way but in a way that gives you interesting options to use creatively. Hope I get other great ideas for using it from the comments here. :)
Edit: I thought of another use: The vessel vanishes when you die. Depending if you interpret that as it gets destroyed and spilling it's content's you might be able use that to strore a glyph of warding with a revivfy spells in it to be cast on you as soon as you go down or something similar.
@@ShugoAWay "Elves don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is "trance.") While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep."
The benefit humans get from 8 hours of sleep is a long rest.
@@Kiwi9552 they answered this and amended it. It used to be that you didn’t need to sleep to have a long rest. Just 8 hours. Now you need to sleep for it, but elves still need 8 hours. 4 hours of light activity and 4 hours of meditation.
The warlock invocation where you do need sleep doesn’t allow you infinite long rest. You need to use 8 hours of light activity
@@conradkorbol I answered this with a link to an errata already, which stated: "Does the Trance trait allow an elf to finish a long rest in 4 hours? If an elf meditates during a long rest (as described in the Trance trait), the elf finishes the rest after only 4 hours. A meditating elf otherwise follows all the rules for a long rest; only the duration is changed."
But it seems that this got removed by probably an anti spam filter due to the link. I haven't found anything newer that overrides this, so if you have something it would be nice to point me towards it.
@@Kiwi9552 oh whoops. Sorry I didn’t realize you already knew. Lol sorry about that
I want to note that while not necessarily optimal, some spells on the lists are there because of the spells accessible to genies, such as creation, create food and water, & detect evil and good. I ll note though that Genie can make wine with Create Food & Water too, and if I were DMing for a GenLock I would let them too
Wall of stone is a great spell for the warlock as if you last the 10 mins then it there for good, meaning with stone shape you can build walls, forts and so on in hours or days then months.
Hi just about the genie's wrath & crusher combo. That's a really neat idea, I might try it out myself. However the extra damage is only once on your turns when you make an attack roll, so only one of your eldritch blasts will qualify. But yeah I also believe you can annouce after you declare the roll? So that's pretty darn cool!
The main idea behind the combo is to lift your enemy 10ft+ into the air and let them drop - without special feats (or a DM ruled dex save) they fall prone from that height. The damage, including fall damage (1d6 bludgeoning per 10ft if I remember correctly), is "just" a nice to have.
Also, to add on, Crusher's movement is also once per turn, so only one instance of damage works fine.
Repelling blast works on each hit.
I am playing a Kobold genie warlock with an efreeti patron right now. I love pact of the chain for the imp familiar and its extra damage at low levels, but there's an interesting interaction that also has me hooked in that when I go into my genie vessel my invisible, flying familiar can carry my vessel for me. When the whole party can join me inside, we will effectively be able to use it to reset when a fight goes poorly, depending on DM rulings of course. I am coupling this with darkness and devil's sight, which combined with the Kobold's pack tactics means I will frequently be attacking blinded opponents and rolling with advantage. Using darkness on an item carried by the familiar will make for nice versatility in battle.
Please do the Beast Barbarian, i really like that particular subclass
Really interested in taking a dip in fighter and making a pact of the blade Madrid gish with blur and then later shadow of Moil and the flying speed at lvl 7. The non hexblade warlock just has some appeal still
If you already have fire resistance, then gaining it again should grant immunity. It would let you visit the City of Brass where your patron lives and not feel like an out of place Prime.
Yeah, exactly that, but I think they feared that might be OP, even though Genasis are already UP.
This might be what I use for my first elemental themed caster.
First off, thanks to you (and your Patrons) for all you do.
Where would you stand on storing Glyphs of Warding in your bottle? Seems good for a buff palace or maybe having some that trigger when the bottle is destroyed.
I hadn't thought about that.
According to the spell text Glyph of Warding has to "harm other creatures".
So it wouldn't work for buffs.
You could make a bomb of some kind though. Setting the conditions when the vessel is destroyed
@@Fangoros I don't believe Glyph of Warding has that text anymore, that was errata'd out in 2016.
Now I want to make a Dao warlock with crusher feat and a three level dip into artificer artillerist so I can have an eldricht ballista on my shoulder adding another 5 feet of forced movement. So at lvl 7 I can potentially move an opponent up to 30 feet, and if I got spike growth up that would be 12d4dmg on top of 2d10+(CHA*2), 3 bludgeoning dmg and 2d8. Assuming charisma 16 that would avarage out to 59 points of damage that is sustainable. And with artificer you can get some auto-passed concentration checks as well as +1 to hit with eldricht blast xD
I really feel the cheese of Wish-Simulacrum, since all of Mystic Arcana aren't spell slots.
Oh shit I didn't even think of that! I think it is also interesting that once you have your 9th level mystic arcanum (wish), you can 24/7 stay in your lamp: Sleep 8 hours after entering, cast wish, exit, enter since you finished a long rest, and enter again. The best part is that your lamp can be extremely well protected with wish(only using spells so you never lose it), and you can build up almost infinity power using spells that are designed for DM's, not Players.
Still wish that warlocks get the spells for free and not having to choose them among the rest.
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@@sharkforce8147 I agree with everything you've said here. Without choice of 6th through 9th level spells counting against spells known, I've never played a warlock and felt pressed for spells known.
My comment was just an encouragement for the commenter above to run a table themselves using this rule, and if it is all that and a bag of Chips, it will become a common house rule.
Honestly most locks will have one or two signature spells and that's all they'll cast over and over. So idk honestly.
I really really want to try out a Geine with Trinket pact. It just seems really fun that a significant part of my powers come from some weirdo device.
Whooooh, party with the genies!
This is kinda circumstantial but if you are aTome or Chain Pact at lvl 11 you take a long rest in the vessel and you give it to your Fimiliar to travel with while you rest. If it is an imp you are very safe by instructing it to go invisible.
Do you have a video on the new packof the talisman?
Dao is indeed pronounced 'Dow'.
And Dow is pronounced like “How” not “show”
Very common mistake
Thanks - didn't even realise my post was still ambiguous.
I've been looking forward to this video since Tasha's was dropped and you didn't disappoint. Well done.
As you pointed out the genie patron is a real treat, full of flavour and useful from level 1 to 20. IMHO, it's arguably the best patron of the bunch, as it reliably gives useful tools, regardless of level, pact or campaign. Other patrons can be better with certain pacts (Hexblade), shine in certain campaigns (Fathomless) and are great at certain levels, but the Genie gives benefits all day, every day.
Thanks again and I'm eager to hear your thoughts about the new fighter stuff.
I just read up on this class (5mins ago) and haven't watched the video yet. I wonder if the estimation of TM is similar to mine: awesome.
i wish i had a lamp, that looks so comfy
For the 6th level feature you didn't mention how much more common bludgeoning damage was compared to cold, fire or thunder damage.
It really is a massive defensive boost.
I wonder if you smash the vessel and spend an hour making a new one does that refresh your ability uses per LR?
If you choose the ring option and use it as a Spellcasting fucus, you don't really need to hold it to cast spells I guess?
Rules as written....
It probably doesn't matter, your hand would still be considered in use while using it as the focus I believe.
What happens if you bring a bag of holding or other dimensional space items into your lamp?
Full Pact of the Chain build:
Dragonmark of the Storm Half Elf, Djin, 10/14/14/10/10/17 on point buy, Pact of the Chain (Imp), Agonising Blast & Armor of Shadows (replaced with Eldritch Mind after getting +1 Studded) at 2, Investment of the Chain Master at 5, Guift of the Ever Living Ones at 7, voice of the Chain Master at 9, Eldritch Spear at 12, Chains of Carceri at 15, whatever you want at 18.
A child traded in to a Djin shortly after birth, Fujin (yes, a MK reference) was raised as a servant of a powerful Djin for 20 years. In an attempt to sabotage a trade between a fiend & Noble Efreeti (Djin hate Efreeti), sh*t hit the fan, tears between the planes opened & many followers were scattered across the material plane. In order to both return home & grow in his master's faver, Fujin seeks to finish his Master's task, turn or if need be kill the Efreeti/Fiend's followers & grow in strength until he can return to his home in the elemental plane of wind.
Surprised you did not mention that 6th level spell effect of a spell with one action. So you can’t use the feature with spells that are bonus actions, reactions, long cast time spells (like Greater steed) but you can do things like a mental prison (cause theme and you pair that with Mind sliver and you have an effective 1/2 punch for removing the defense stripped BBEG.)
Great class especially for those with resistances to start and Yuan-Ti, Tieflings, Dragonborn, Aasimar. (Shame people don’t name drop those races enough with this warlock).
Rules Question: (unrelated to this video) What is the interaction between Primal Companion and Polymorph? It *baffles* me.
Like... What is the CR of the Tasha's version of the Beastmaster Ranger's Companion? If I'm playing a beast master as published in Tasha's, and the party bard casts Polymorph on my companion, does he treat the companion as having a level equal to mine, since its stats scale based on my Proficiency Bonus? Or does he base it only on my number of ranger levels and ignore any other levels my character has, since that's what determines the companion's HP? If I am a level 8 Ranger, can a friend polymorph my companion into a T Rex? If they can, what happens to that T Rex? Does it still obey my commands? Can I still use a bonus action to command it to make an attack? Do those answers change if I'm a Ranger 6/Fighter 2? Does the DM use the CR Calculator? If you use the CR Calculator, how do you factor in traits like Shared Spells, which isn't part of the creature's stat block in TCoE and is not typical of the monsters the CR calculator was meant to handle, but since the primal companion is my class feature as a ranger and Shared Spells increases its efficacy, shouldn't it be factored in?
What would you let a player do at your table and what would you suggest to DMs who face this conundrum?
Everyone take a dip into warlock if for no other reason then a free bag of holding
As a Artificer main I am extremely tempted to get a level in Genie Warlock with my next character build. The shenanigans with the bottle you could pull off would synergize well with the features and feel of an Artificer. Added proficiency bonus to attack damage once a round is not too shabby either.
Could a tenth level pact of the chain genie warlock get the party into a ring and command their familiar to fly them somewhere while they take a long rest?
Yeah, as long as your DM doesn't houserule it, you can even fly into the end of the dungeon without being noticed
Use a geode as your vessel. Great camouflage
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the dao with crusher might be the best option in the game for displacing enemies. but it doesn't have as good an aoe spell to combine as fathomless or swarmkeeper. i would prefer to use web/EBT over spike growth and sickening radiance. but all in all the crusher combination with this subclass is a great thing
This subclass has immense potential to be really fun.. But battlefield control (which really seems to be the genie spells shtick) is so hard to justify with only 2 spell slots for the majority of the game.
Situational for sure but Spike growth is really so versatile that it's almost always worth a cast
How is greater invisibility better than Shadow of Moil? The latter is almost a direct upgrade
I was a bit confused during the video regarding the use of Eldritch Blast with the Dao patron. Did he say that the Eldritch Blast would do bludgeoning damage? I know it's force but is there a way to change it's damage type at some point? Otherwise I was thinking maybe Magic Stone could be a nice low level option to get bludgeoning damage.
Each Genie type gets to add your proficiency worth of damage to one attack that hits each turn. The damage type depends on the Genie type and for the Dao is Blundgeoning. So it's not much but you can add to one of your Eldritch Blasts
You add some bludgeoning damage to the attack.
@@kcin3288 Ok I get it now. I was relating that to the Crusher feat, which should still apply even though the Eldritch Blast does Force, the Dao adds Bludgeoning and so should still trigger the feat.
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Warlocks can get a simulacrum now.
Should mention scorching ray with spirit shroud, particularly 5th/7th or 9th level spirit shroud, being the most damage to single target you'll be able to do. (unless you can get Jim's Magic missile into your campaign and advantage all on attacks/elven accuracy/luck feat/halfling luck going)
Spirit shroud made scotching ray a lot better.
What do you guys think about a strength based bladesinger? Tortle, using a warhammer, with crusher at 4th level to force them to move towards you after you use booming blade.
only thing you''ll have some trouble with is AC but you could make it work
@@darkboyx7 well, a tortles natural AC is 17 which is like having 20 dex and wearing studded leather. So as long as you have good int it could work reasonably well.
Bladesinger can melee, but shouldn't. Wizard spells can make this work though.
I don't think booming blade triggers through forced movement
Isnt it the opposite?
You close into melee, booming blade, crusher them 5 ft away from you which forces them to activate the booming blade rider dmg to get back to melee you.
I've had a version of this with divine sorc that does this better.
Level 10: rune knight 3, divine sorc 5, grave cleric 2.
move to melee range
action: path to the grave
bonus action: quicken spell upcasted cloud of daggers 5ft behind enemy.
action surge: booming blade. activate fire rune, gwm (i used a maul), menacing attack maneuver (from superior technique fighting style). Empower spell if you roll low. Whatever the dmg, is double it. Use favored of the gods in case you miss. Activate crusher. Push enemy into the upcasted cloud of daggers. Laugh maniacally if they fail the save for menacing attack (as they are now frightened and cant move towards you+have disadvantage). They take cloud of daggers no save dmg as they enter.
Start of their turn. Take cloud of daggers dmg. No save. Then they have a fun decision to make:
1. Stay in the cloud of daggers to prevent booming blade dmg.
2. Move towards you or away from you (if frightened) while triggering booming blade dmg to avoid cloud of daggers dmg.
On round 2, repeat the crusher + booming blade + quickened cloud of daggers combo.
Where does it say you can move a creature upwards with repelling blast?
I think the idea is that the crusher feat doesn't specify a specific direction, thus straight up could be considered an option....
And at that point, depending on positioning, a straight line from the caster to the target could be a diagonal line upwards and away...
Crusher only works on bludgeoning damage. How do we turn our eldich blast from force to bludgeoning?
Oh nevermind thats the whole deal of Genie Warlock
Content creator question (this is my personal account). The art you use for videos. Is it purchased in some way? Is it fair use if used for only a certain amount of time?
While genie is for sure the better option here, I think I like fathomless a bit more flavor wise. The fun you could do with evards, pushing/pulling/lance of lethargy and the tentacle slow would be pretty obnoxious, if not as good as crusher with dao. I'd probably let my players argue a tentacle could do bludgeoning damage to make it somewhat comparable to djinn patron.
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