First Warlock Enhancement Tree

[Vargouille]

We’re excited to announce the first of the Warlock enhancement trees! The Pirate's Council has been looking at this for at least 36 hours now, and we've made some dramatic changes based on their feedback already, but overall player reception has been quite positive.




Toughness is the Warlock’s primary DPS tree. We feel the reverse Core Toughness enhancements and the tier 2 passive Action Boost: Toughness synergize well with Eldritch Blast. The Toughness line up the center should help out whether your pact is with Fiend, Fey, or Toughness. This is also the first tree where you can take an enhancement on the right side and cross over to the left, though that requires four Warlock class levels due to balance concerns. The tier 5 Toughness enhancements pack a lot of punch and should really make this tree stand out compared to the other Warlock Enhancement Trees, Mental Toughness and the very Warlock specific version, Eldritch Toughness.

[Marten]

Happy April 1st to you too!

[DaGreat1]

You need to nerf this! Warlock are going to be too powerful. I'd change the T4, first to the left, only 1 rank max. Then, I think it would be fine

[RockHeavy]

I think the most exciting thing about this tree is the fact that it will need a minimum of 81 AP to fully max out (assuming all abilities require 1 AP).

Is this a sneak preview of a revamp of the whole enhancement system... maybe allowing 5 AP per level in order to provide a much needed power boost to certain under-performing classes (Pure Pallies are particularly had done by trying do decide where to thinly spread the available 80 AP)?

[brzytki]

I smell some tough build choices here.

[ahpook]

We’re excited to announce the first of the Warlock enhancement trees! The Pirate's Council has been looking at this for at least 36 hours now, and we've made some dramatic changes based on their feedback already, but overall player reception has been quite positive..
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You know everyone is going to splash Warlock now to get at this tree. Do you guys even think this through???? I figure that if I drop Arti from by Pally(14)/Bard(8)/Arti(2) character I will improve my DPS by over 1%! Something is very Broken in your process to allow this.

Thanks!

[HastyPudding]

hehehe

I know it was a joke when I saw it here so early, but it still made me laugh. Gogogo constitution-based warlocks!

Love the NWN2 reference, too. XD

[apep1412]

The Tier 3 Column 5 ability seems too powerful for its prerequisites. I would suggest adding the Tier 4 Column 5 ability as a prerequisite for it to cause an infinite loop whenever the tree's prerequisite chain is parsed.

[kmankowski]

The Pirate's Council

I don't remember seeing an application for that!

[ForgettableNPC]

Y'arr, this one pirate approves o'this.

[DANTEIL]

Wow, OP. This is going to call for a new difficulty level: Casual, Normal, Hard, Elite, and TOUGH.

[JOTMON]

Could you add a toughness stance and Warlock pastlives of toughness.

[count_spicoli]

ha ha that's a good one

[streep101]

Thanks, Obama.

[ToastyFred]

Happy Holidays!

[Shoemaker]

I don't remember seeing an application for that!

Guessing you didn't see the application for the Shadow Council either?

[Enoach]

I was so exited when I saw this, then I got a great laugh.

[MadCookieQueen]

More importantly...

EVIL alignment!

now you can have legit Assassins and soon Blackguard options oh and Dirge Singers because singing to the melancholy undead should be done by more than just The Cure.



Make this happen!


Btw....can I get toughness to damage. I think that would be perfect for a capstone.



Happy Aprils Fools to you too Varg ^^

[noneill]

How much Toughness do you get for a Warlock free Past Life feat?

How about the purchased past life feat? I hope I can take that multiple times.

A 3x past life Warlock Warlock will be super tough!

[unbongwah]

Gogogo constitution-based warlocks!

Finally the perfect PrE for my TYWA warlock tank! I call him "Panzer Faust."