Looking for opinions on my Bardlock

[Rugged Lemmings]

Can't decide how I want to do the split, so I'm looking for input to help decide. I'm going College of Swords and Pact of the Blade.

4 Bard/8 Warlock gets me 3 feats, more invocations, and higher spell levels for my warlock spells.

6 Bard/6 Warlock gets me 3 attacks, better inspiration, Font of Inspiration, and Counter Charm, but I lose out on a feat, an invocation, and my warlock spells won't hit lvl 4.

[Moonbane]

The first one is bad, you dont get the extra attack from college of swords that stacks with pact of the blade. It has been confirmed to not be a bug. And if you want to go pact of the blade, you want to maximise your attacks.

[The1Kobra]

I'd go with this combo:
7 bard, 5 Warlock.
Pact of the Blade on Warlock. Be sure to get repelling and agonizing blast.
For bard:
If you're human or half-elf, go College of Swords
Otherwise, go College of Valour

[Rugged Lemmings]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

The first one is bad, you dont get the extra attack from college of swords that stacks with pact of the blade. It has been confirmed to not be a bug. And if you want to go pact of the blade, you want to maximise your attacks.

From what I've read in a few places, Pact of the Blade's extra attack at 5 is the only extra attack that does stack with other classes' extra attacks. Not that I doubt you, but can you cite something that confirms this? I ask because there's a lot of answers out there (partly why I came to the message board for opinions, just googling stuff doesn't always get it right) and it's hard to filter through what's old or inaccurate info.

[AsianGirlLover]

7 Bard / 5 Warlock is the way.

You could also try 7 Paladin / 5 Warlock to be an extremely OP tank, or 2 Paladin / 6 Bard / 4 Warlock to lose an extra attack but gain smites.

[Moonbane]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/16tyftv/pact_of_the_blade_stacking_with_extra_attack/

Here, its not a bug

[Rugged Lemmings]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BG3Builds/comments/16tyftv/pact_of_the_blade_stacking_with_extra_attack/

Here, its not a bug

I apologize, I completely misread your first response. Still, thank you for posting that because it does provide the firm confirmation on the matter I was looking for. Cheers! :^)

[Supply Slut]

10 bard/2 lock gets you magical secrets which is excellent at bard level 10, the 2 levels in lock isn’t much but you can get something like agonizing and repelling blast making your eldritch blast a solid damage option at any point: push over ledges or just do a good amount of damage for a cantrip.