Maxed Out Warlock Eldritch Blast Build – What’s Next for More Power?

[Axiata]

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Hey everyone,

I’ve spent around 30 hours farming in Act 1 and 2, and I’ve finally hit the max level for my Warlock Eldritch Blast build. While I’m super happy with my progress, I’m wondering what I can do next to make my character even more powerful.

I’m looking for suggestions on:

Gear upgrades that can boost my power
Any hidden strategies or abilities I might have missed
Tougher challenges or builds that can push my Warlock even further
CLASS CHANGE???? HMMM.......

Would really appreciate any advice or insights from experienced Warlock players! Thanks in advance!

[Mike Garrison]

The "Potent Robe" (gifted by Alfira) is the BEST piece of gear for an EB warlock. If you aren't wearing it, then either a) you didn't get it from Alfira for plot reasons, or b) you are nowhere close to maxing out an EB build for a warlock.

[[TG] zac]

Ironically enough the best eldritch blast build without mods only does 2 levels into warlock then goes sorcerer because EB will scale with character level and 2 lvls warlock is enough to get hex & the invocation that gives each beam your charisma mod bonus to damage.

Sorcerer lets them use meta magic to quicken the blasts so they can do 2 per turn)

With mods it ends up being valor bard 6 + warlock 2 and 4 rogue thief because valor bard with the 2024PHB version of the class gets the ability to replace one attack each turn with a cantrip once they have extra attack.
Meaning they can get sharpshooter, an off hand + main hand crossbow and shoot, then bonus action shoot (each for 1d6+10) then blast someone for 1d10+4 for each of 3 beams every turn at late game before gear is factored in.

As for specific gear/build.
Hex is a must have as it adds +1d6 per hit and late game you are hitting 3x per cantrip.
Hexing someone's saving throw is also extremely good as it can set them up for another caster.

There is a ring at the monestary that lets you add your stat modifier to damage done with spells.
There is also a hat there that gives you a stack of arcane acuity whenever you hit with a spell,
The staff in the arcane tower that gives the user bless and causes bless to give all attacks an additional +d4 to the attack roll (+2d4 on spell attacks) is also insanely good even into late game.

Other then that I cant really think of much off the top of my head as I have been playing more of a melee gish build recently.

[受伤的大灰狼]

yes

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by TG zac:

There is a ring at the monestary that lets you add your stat modifier to damage done with spells.

Say what? Doesn't sound like any ring I've ever found in the game.

[Angel]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Originally posted by TG zac:

There is a ring at the monestary that lets you add your stat modifier to damage done with spells.

Say what? Doesn't sound like any ring I've ever found in the game.

they probably got confused and meant to say the necklace

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by Angel:

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Say what? Doesn't sound like any ring I've ever found in the game.

they probably got confused and meant to say the necklace

You mean the amulet of elemental augmentation? Problem is, that only adds your spellcasting modifier to elemental cantrips. EB is a force cantrip.

[[TG] zac]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Originally posted by TG zac:

There is a ring at the monestary that lets you add your stat modifier to damage done with spells.

Say what? Doesn't sound like any ring I've ever found in the game.

Ya sorry my bad, the one I was thinking of adds it to physical attacks for a couple turns after you do a spell.

There is a ring that does apply reverberation when you hit with a spell though.

Depending on what gear you do get though the reverberation can kind of be a build in itself as it lowers saves on the target and can do some other things with other pieces of gear (is a piece that can do a knockdown if they reach enough stacks if I remember right)

[Angel]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

Originally posted by Angel:

they probably got confused and meant to say the necklace

You mean the amulet of elemental augmentation? Problem is, that only adds your spellcasting modifier to elemental cantrips. EB is a force cantrip.

that's the one yeah

[Limdood]

Originally posted by TG zac:

Hexing someone's saving throw is also extremely good as it can set them up for another caster.

Hex doesn't affect saving throws, only ability checks. Functionally for BG3, there is almost no point to choosing anything other than strength for hex, since the enemies don't use skill rolls other than strength (for athletics for shoving) or perception (for spotting your hidden characters, but there's little reason to hide defensively in this game, and with cones of vision and view distances, hiding offensively virtually never requires a skill check).

In actual pencil and paper D&D, you MIGHT hex dex to try to neutralize an enemy's acrobatics or stealth but it isn't likely to come up.

Hexing to give disadvantage on saving throws just isn't a thing, since the spell doesn't and has never affected saves (and no, picking constitution doesn't work either, because concentration rolls are constitution SAVES)

[Mike Garrison]

IMO, hex is a really nice spell for a warlock at low levels, and a complete waste of a spell slot at high levels. At low levels that extra few points of damage on every attack can be pretty significant, but at high levels you have much, much better things to use your spell slots on (Hunger of Hadar, Hold Monster, stuff like that...)

[FunkyMonkey]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

IMO, hex is a really nice spell for a warlock at low levels, and a complete waste of a spell slot at high levels. At low levels that extra few points of damage on every attack can be pretty significant, but at high levels you have much, much better things to use your spell slots on (Hunger of Hadar, Hold Monster, stuff like that...)

Good advice. Not only is Hex a waste of a high-level spell slot, it's also a waste of Concentration. Warlocks have so much better options after level 3 or 4 than Hex.

[jonnin]

the point of hex is twofold. First, it can be recast without a slot, making EB that much stronger for 'free' each round. Second, there are a couple of items that give a bonus when concentrating, and having an inactive hex counts and can be held across multiple rooms and multiple fights. Its situational, but whether it needs to be replaced from your spell list entirely or not is up to whether you use these two things much. That is not to mention tag-team hex and zap with something like disintegrate where they fail the save because disadvantage.
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Far as making an EB warlock stronger, its all in the items. You can't multiclass too much, or you won't get 3 beams. That gives you possibly 2 levels of multiclassing...
-> a level 2 bard dip gets you a short rest spell reset
-> 2 levels of fighter and a full respec (fighter level first to get armor etc) gets you armor, shield, self heal, action surge, fighting style, and similar but lesser benefits from ranger/paladin dips. Ranger dip can replace hex with mark...
-> you can try something with sorc metamagic but so little so few uses...

of those resetting spells with bard or fighter are my top ideas.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Axiata:

Maxed Out Warlock Eldritch Blast Build – What’s Next for More Power?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383982987

Hey everyone,

I’ve spent around 30 hours farming in Act 1 and 2, and I’ve finally hit the max level for my Warlock Eldritch Blast build. While I’m super happy with my progress, I’m wondering what I can do next to make my character even more powerful.

I’m looking for suggestions on:

Gear upgrades that can boost my power
Any hidden strategies or abilities I might have missed
Tougher challenges or builds that can push my Warlock even further
CLASS CHANGE???? HMMM.......

Would really appreciate any advice or insights from experienced Warlock players! Thanks in advance!

Try to master boom boom monk.

[Thomas D.]

@Jonnin
Wrong, you can multi class, EB scales with player level, not class level! Level 2 Warlock is all you need if EB is the only thing you care about.

No, hex doesn't give disadvantage on saving throws as someone else already explained.

@OP
But yeah, if you want to max it: Potent Robe, Charisma 24, Sorcerer with Quicken Spell, one of the 2 Staves with Lightning Charges.

Then you could for example reduce Spell Crit for example with one Bow (just equip, don't use it, kt works passively on spells, too) and Spell Sniper (you don't have to choose EB, it works with all on hit spells). And if you want to play hide & seek the there is even more stuff to decrease it further.

Then there is that ring that adds some radiant damage if enemy is lit up another one that gives the enemy a orb that lights it up.

Also you could play around with other Procs like Revarbation.

[jonnin]

Oh, if it gets 3 beams at player level, then you can do just about *anything*.
Ignoring gear, and just thinking ideas... I would probably try to find nastier things to keep knocking them back into with EB so they take repeated damage from that. Not sure what the best large aoe to throw things into would be... cloud of daggers is great but its a small target. Hmm.
That and getting extra goes with EB, whether that is haste or action surge or something else.