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Genie should never Suffer unintended Consequences from the Wish Spell. It is important to note that in traditional genie literature, there is no mention of negative effects on genies when granting wishes. Therefore, it may not make sense to include such consequences in a game or story featuring genies. Furthermore, the purpose of granting wishes is often to convince individuals to sign a pact with the genie. This pact would limit the genie's ability to use the unlimited wish spell for themselves or their friends. If unintended consequences were to occur as a result of wishes granted by genies, it should be the person making the wish who suffers the consequences, not the genie. The genie's role is to facilitate the granting of the wish and uphold the terms of the pact. In a game or story featuring genies, powerful individuals may seek out the protagonist's character in order to sign a pact and gain access to unlimited wishes. It is up to the DM to create a wish that moves the story forward and ensure that any unintended consequences are appropriately addressed. Overall, it is important to stay true to the traditional genie literature when creating a game or story featuring genies. The focus should be on the pact between the genie and the wish-maker, rather than on negative consequences for the genie.
Marid Patron is the best option for making a warlock of Santa Claus. Cold resistance, flight speed, Detect Naughty and Nice (Detect Evil and Good), Create Cookies and Milk (Create Food and Water), a bag that's a lot roomier than it looks, winter-themed spells, and of course Wish.
Currently playing a Variant Human Dao Genie Warlock whose patron is an ultimate gourmand. Price of the pact is that I spend ten years learning to be the best cook that I possibly can, and if judged worthy, I then spend ten years serving in the Dao's kitchens. Picked up the Chef feat for the CON bump and the flavor. Pact of the Tome, so it's a Cookbook of Shadows. Genie Vessel is an ornate pepper grinder, hope to stock interior with a small kitchen and a microbrewery.
I rolled an Artificer /Genie Warlock as a meme build. Turned out pretty good. One tactic she had was , over a week, load up the genie bottle (yes bottle because it was fragile) with gun powder, oil, alchemist fire and the like . 20x20 ft is alot of stuff. She would then use catapult (spell) launch the bottle, smashing it, and thus "every objects stored there harmlessly appears in the unoccupied space closest to the vessel former space".Tthen bonus action command the turret to shoot at the contents. Big Bada BOOM! 1hour later and she started the process all over again.
I'm a fan of an old glass lantern as the magical bottle, but I can see the problem of "touch your thing" has with "well I just happen to be wearing my ring!" Personally I'd rule that all objects are easily carriable/on par with the ring. Because it's just flavour
"Flavour is Free", so I took a single level of Efreeti Warlock to represent my Wildfire Druid gaining additional powers after his life was saved by his wildfire spirit! Earlier in the campaign, the druid Kellan received a "Moon Seed", a magic pinecone that functioned like the Moon Sickle from Tasha's but which could be worn or carried instead of wielded (it wasn't a weapon), and this pinecone became his wildfire spirit's home, where it slept when it wasn't summoned. Fast forward to 9th level, and Kellan sacrificed his life to stop an eruption from the Elemental Plane of Fire from spilling into the Prime Material ("If anyone has a chance of surviving this, it's me.") The elemental fires consumed his body, but his wildfire spirit - representing both destruction and rebirth - kept his soul safe, and a week later it "reincarnated" him into a new, partially-real body that's now an extension of the wildfire spirit. I took a single level of Efreeti Warlock and re-flavoured it to represent Kellan's transformation and new source of power: The genie subclass gives him additional fire damage on his attacks, and the Moon Seed itself has become the "genie's vessel", so now Kellan can retreat inside the seed just like the wildfire spirit does. The spell list overlaps with Wildfire and Druid too much to be useful, but I took "Hellish Rebuke" from the base warlock list; when the constructed body is damaged, unstable flame can erupt out at the attacker. Optimal dip? Not really, but flavourful and fun.
two levels of warlock is considered pretty optimal for druid, given that a lot of the druid's strongest spells aren't reliant on DC you can just lean into cha
Seems neat. Only gripe is the vessel can't be a magical item but you n your DM must've ignored that n I don't blame ya. Resting inside something they've had for so long and means so much to them so much is great!
@@CasualLoLAddict why can't it? nothing in the text says it can't be: "Your patron gifts you a magical vessel that grants you a measure of the genie’s power. The vessel is a Tiny object, and you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. You decide what the object is, or you can determine what it is randomly by rolling on the Genie’s Vessel table."
@@blitheringape5321 Two levels may be optimal for a premeditated multiclass, but this was a spur-of-the-moment choice after eight solid levels of being a druid. As a Wildfire Druid especially, Kellan is a caster - a blaster, a healer, a controller - and also a Shillelagh wielder, so the dip into Warlock was just for some fun features and not to make use of anything that relied on charisma (his "Fiery Rebuke" save DC is a bit lower than his other saves, for example, but I didn't mind). Of note, I didn't dip warlock for Hex, Eldritch Blast, or (obviously) Hexblade.
@@CasualLoLAddict Yeah, we decided that it wouldn't break the item economy or anything if the vessel is an item you already have when you multiclass into Genie Warlock (as Kobold says, it could just be a ring you have on your hand and forget about), so it felt great being able to form a stronger bond with a favourite item we'd already added some flavour to.
I remember when Genie UA came out and I made a changeling warlock with a djinn patron. Based him on Frank Abagnale from Catch Me If You Can. Conman competing for the affections of his patron. Best character and this subclass enhanced every aspect of his being. W class.
For limited wish, an interesting thing you can do with it is actually take advantage of the armor proficiency from tenser’s transformation. Since it’s an ability to cast a spell the normal restrictions when you lack proficiency should be ignored. Then you just do pact of the blade and scare someone with 2d12 and 6d8 extra damage on a warlock with a flight speed.
Genie does seem pretty neat, and I've seen someone with Pact of the Chain use their imp to carry their pact item around while the PC hid inside of it. Pretty smart!
Seeming: In addition to the disguise benefits, you can turn tanking on its head: Make the squishies look like heavies and the heavies like squishies. Any enemy that picks their targets intelligently will be tricked into not doing so.
That would probably buy you one turn, maybe a little less against actually intelligent opponents who would question why the wizard is gripping his staff like a greatsword and charging at you, or why the heavily armored knight with the axe is running to a covered position and casting fireball. That being said, buying one turn of suboptimal actions on the enemy side in a combat that lasts 4 turns is pretty good. One of *my* favorite uses of Seeming comes from a little bit of unique text that other disguising spells don't have... You can cast it on unwilling creatures. Hear enemy reinforcements on the way? Cast seeming and change appearances with your enemies! Bind some enemy guards, seeming to make them all look like you and your party look like them and then escort them inside the enemy base. You don't get to use it like this *often*, (And the more enemies you do this to the less likely it is to succeed) but it can create some pretty ridiculous antics if you look for them.
I also do like that the resistance you get from Genie doesn't overlap with their related Gensai options (besides fire), keeping you from being "punished" by playing into that theme either. Bonus points If your DM let's you add in the scion of elemental X (and bonus trait rule), gives it that extra bit of flavor to flush out the character more.
Fun fact: you can use tiny objects that do not have empty spaces in them if you really wanted to, as there is no limit about that. A dagger is a tiny object and as such it can be used as a genie's Vessel. Does it count as a magical weapon? Who knows. Even if it does it's weak enough that it barely affects anything
Another great advantage that the Daolock's Bludgeoning resistance gives them over any other genielock: Falling damage is bludgeoning damage too. Admittedly, the genie warlock has some interesting ways around fall damage (Such as being the only class that can survive a fall into the bottomless pit of doom at level 1 as long as they have time to take an action to get into their vessel... or just turning on their magical flying) but sometimes falling happens before you have time to react, and PCs take a *lot* of falling damage.
Dao warlock is the best for the "Eldritch Cheese Grater," laying down Spike Growth and using Repelling Blast and Grasp of Hadar to grind your enemies to dust!
Since Flavor is Free, I should mention that this is a great pick to reflavor as a Draconic patron. A portable lair/hoard, elemental affinity, fly speed, it's all there.
this is my fav chain pact. with a pseudo dragon or imp you effectively just have a stealth plane that works for the whole party eventually. extremely fun and powerful. tons of shenanigans make this one my second fav pact.
Another thing that should be noted about the level 6 flying feature. Since you can hover that means you can fall prone in the sky. The rules for going prone while flying is that you fall UNLESS you can hover. Being prone in the sky is great because ranges attacks have disadvantage aggainst you so most enemies still can't even touch you, but now most of the ones who can are going to have a harder time doing it (Realistically you wouldn't want to use this ability if your foe can fly anyway so it doesn't matter) I think Kobold actually brought this up when discussing the twilight cleric, which can also fly at 6th level and do this exact same thing, idk why he didn't bring it up but it's veery useful.
Literally recently made a genie warlock. Nutshell. An autistic introvert Owlin and his best friend, an extrovert cheeky/snarky Pixie familiar (sprite) She the pixie loves snuggling up in his poofed up neck feathers. His vessel, a capsule bracelet is his stunningly beautiful safe space. With her ability to look into hearts she helps him feel comfortable with people, or rightfully weary. Thinking for names i came up with two that work very well. Darius, Danielle. Since they very feywild, it's perfect for the "give me you name" type scenarios. Pixie "Hey sweetheart, im Dari, that's Dani" Owlin "No. Im Dari, your Dani" Pixie "heh or maybe im Dani, you get confused sometimes, so what's your name, or should i call ya Dabi?"
11:20 "There's an armor problem" The problem is that you're required to wear a sleeveless vest, (If you don't have boobs you're expected not to wear a shirt underneath) and poofy pants, as well as those shoes with the curly toes.
Genie Warlock is so rad. I have a character who is a Storm Sorcerer 1/Genie Warlock 1. She worked in Sharn on the Lightning Rail but wasn't good at the engineering bc she was just magical not smart, and one day she accidentally disappeared a 750,000 GP train engine, and the Lightning Rail bosses told her she was gonna be in SO MUCH TROUBLE except a mysterious patron offered to pay her debt for her in exchange for her services, and that's how she ended up becoming a Genie Warlock
I'm a big fan of dwarf Dao warlock to fix the AC problem. I can also see the strat of casting a concentration spell and dipping into the vessel being pretty good. If high enough level, I could take Arcanum that would be good for simulacrums and just have an entourage of myself to defend me while I some hookah in my genie palace mid combat
One thing you didn't mention about the vessel that is downright broken. It is a 10 ft radius by 20ft high cylinder extraplanar space that can fit into bags of holding without any issues AND has no weight limits. You can store so many things in here its basically a super bag of holding. Sure you can't use it against unwilling creatures or anything of the sort, but you can store so much stuff in there its insane, and even use it to double store itself in a bag of holding for even more shenanigans. Mine in a game I'm playing stores our party Shield Guardian so he doesn't have to make checks and I just let him out during battle.
But you can only access it once per Long Rest, making it more of a "Safe Deposit Box of Holding". The description says it has to be carried out... unless you destroy the Vessel. Might be a good trick for a glass bottle Vessel (*smash*SUDDENLY GUARDIAN*), but it takes an hour to summon a new bottle
I actually played this subclass and loved it, when with fire cause I seemed cool and I had fun with it. You can actually do some pretty fun rp stuff with bottled respite. I had the ring and stowed it places to listen in on conversations or have my party throw me across river's in the ring
One spell I recommend for Limited Wish is Leomund’s Secret Chest. It takes one action to cast and it allows for more storage by making a tiny chest and sending the bigger one to the Ethereal Plane. It just means that you could min-max your bottle space by making a crap ton of those chests and neatly organize your Tiny Chest collection. Just remember to bring it back and recast the spell after 60 days to make guarantee that your stuff isn’t lost forever.
I think it was DnD shorts that did the video about how you can combine Genie Warlock with Glyph of Warding to make the ultimate buff. Glyph of warding is no longer limited by travel. You can store multiple concentration buffs on separate glyphs and then activate all of them simultaneously when you like, all of them lasting for the extent of the duration. At 20th level if you went Wizard 17/Warlock 3 you can even multi-chain spells like True Polymorph (assuming ruling of stacking rather than overriding transformations). With enough Batman prep time you can then kill literally anything because nothing can hurt you.
The 10min. Short rest is awesome, but another ace up your sleeve is that with Sanctuary vessel and pact of the chain Imp, you can suck your whole party in and get a long rest while your Imp goes invisible and gets out of reach of any danger. The best part is that Bottled respite requires you to get a long rest after ENTERING the vessel, so once your party gets their long rest you can repeat this whenever you want. Really useful in long dungeons or other areas where everyone is low on resources. Can really ruin a DM's plans too so use sparingly!
Also you can fill the vessel whit Glyphs of Guarding whit buffs spells and give al your party fly/mage armor/haste and more, full duration and no concentration 🐊
Definitely would make for a great Dr. Fate cosplay character. Dr. Fate has a strong earthen iconography with his Egyptian themed origin, so Dao would be flavorful. Dr. Fate has a vast archive of magical books and arcane knowledge, so Pact of the Tome is a strong pick. The Helm of Fate just requires a Helm for the Genie's Vessel feature. Possibly grab one of the available common magic helms from XGtE. Any of the Invocations could be used in combination to represent Dr. Fate's magical feats.
I find that if you're creative enough, you can twist the entire mechanical concept of a "genie warlock" and instead have say, a demon in a lantern, an angel in a reliquary, evil in-laws in a Pringle's can, the possibilities are pretty expansive, it mostly just has to be "A powerful (elemental) creature bound to a handheld object you carry with you". Hells it can be a smart phone with a Warlocks-R-Us app where you cast magic from your phone, and as you gain levels you are just benefiting from the loyalty rewards program.
My favorite concept for a Genie Warlock is playing a Genesi Warlock whose Genie Patron is their overprotective parent who insisted on traveling with their child and their friends.
Casting wish once a day is mostly a way to create plot hooks for your DM instead of actually achieving anything, yet at the point that you can do this you will be starved for challenges anyways so that's probably sth good
So I’ve heard of a super combo that utilizes the Bottled Respite feature and Glyph of Warding. Basically if you store a buff spell in a Glyph of Warding, the spell can be used on someone and lasts the full duration without needing concentration. Basically you can stack multiple glyphs all with different buff spells all set to trigger on the same space at the same command word. The main weaknesses of this is its REALLY expensive to make a lot of glyphs, but that’s negated of this is late levels, especially if you get the actual Wish spell. Another is if a Glyph of Warding is moved more than 10ft from the cast location, it dispels. You can beat that drawback with Genie Warlock by setting up the Glyphs inside your vessel. As the inside is an extradimensional space, even if the vessel is moving, the space inside isn’t. Basically if the party is in a bad spot, the Warlock pops into their vessel, goes to the Glyphed spot, says “Wombo Combo”, and pops back out with every type to Smite spell applied to them at once. This combo is viable without the warlock if you just have a home base you feel you may need to seriously defend one day to have a buff closet. This tactic could also be used against the party by enemy characters defending a fort if you really want to throw a challenge at the party. (And if the party knows about it and can figure out the trigger condition, maybe can steal the buffs for themselves for the encounter)
I’ve been working on a concept based on a multiclass combo idea I had for a Draconic Sorcerer/Genie Warlock, pick Efreeti or Marid and match elements with the dragon, get level 6 Draconic Sorcerer, and now your attack roll cantrips do elemental damage from Genie, which gets boosted by Draconic 6! The story I’m going with is that a Dragon wishes for a descendant, and offers 2 vials of it’s blood to the Genie to make it happen. The genie would act as a guardian angel of sorts.
I love my Eloquence Bard / Genie Warlock, as an Elf Eladrin I only need to meditate for 4 hrs so right off the bat I was able to get a long rest in my bottle! :)
You really undersold Limited Wish. Sure, being able to cast "good" spells that you normally wouldn't be able to is nice, however, that's not the only thing it can do. The biggest benefit is how supremely versatile it is by providing instant access to ANY 1 action spell of 6th level or lower. There are a LOT of really good, but extremely situational spells that hardly anyone will ever have at the ready: Knock, Passwall, Speedy Courier, to name a few. As well as a bunch of others that you just unexpectedly need (or don't have a class with access to it): Pass without Trace, Locate Creature/Object, Speak with Plants/Animals/Dead.
Currently I'm playing a paladin/genie and I'm loving the abilities such as going into the ring so I can have an archer attach the ring to an arrow. Then you have an instant angry paladin in your face without the party having to get too close
a romanicish backstory for your genie warlocks I made myself. you were a lowly student at a high wizarding school and one day somehow fall in to a elemanal plane (what ever plane your genie is) and fall face to face with your soon to be patrion and and after some aid your choice of genie asks for you to be one of their few warlocks, you agree and stay for a while, but during that time you grow closer and closer to your patrion, you both realize that you both have feeling and become a couple and then you have your own reason for being where you are now, (if you want you could my you and your genie married and have your wedding ring as your genie vessel) Please let me know what you think I've never shared this on the internet, I hope you all like it! it might be a bit cringe but i like it
I made a Genie Warlock as a BBEG in one of my tables. using the Khayal, the Shadowfell Genie. and modifying the vessel and some other features to trap the party in the vessel as CC.
Playing a Dao Genie warlock (Echo Knight fighter MC) currently lvl 7 (4w /3f , planning to keep taking warlock) Im a kenku child wearing heavy armor, and its great. My party found a random ring on an enemy, and after a while food kept disappearing. After they set a trap they found out I was in the ring and travelling with them.
I just want to point out that it plays really well with fighter multiclass. Being able to action surge can get a lot of blasts going, and 3 levels of fighter gets you a fighter subclass, and still lets you get wish.
You said "Some people get mad when you point out an error in the game." And while some nerds do get upset just at the mention I think it's one thing to point out that the game is busted and wild and a whole different thing to try to pull some sneaky "Well ackshually...." type argument with the DM at your table, most people obsessed with these exceptions are trying to be disruptive at the table and thats rude to the DM who prepped and ran the session and also rude to the other players just trying to enjoy this game with friends.
With the level 10 feature you can literally just complete a whole long rest (assuming the vessel doesn’t get destroyed) also you can store useful things like health and haste potions in their and if it doesn’t break(by the sounds of it you can make a adamantite ring it’s probably not gonna break
There is nothing in the combination of crusher and repelling blast that would allow you to knock creatures on the same plane as you into the air to subsequently suffer falling damage.
One thing I do for ALL Warlocks is give them the ability to alter the damage type of their spells/abilities to a type that's associated with their Patron. For example Dao get Bludgeoning the energy takes the form of magical boulders/rocks, Ifrit would get Fire damage, Djinni would get Thunder damage as the spell turns into a powerful blast of wind, and Marid would get Cold damage as it becomes the freezing water of the watery deep.
I'm tired of you reading my mind Kobold! Everything you make a video it was about something I just thought of! Whatever part of my brain you stole I'm gonna come and Modify Memory it out your head!!! Love the content Kobold! 💘
Probably mentioned but Mountain Dwarf is a good way to help with AC for this subclass, and Mountain/Dao go together well thematically. Only 25ft movement but once you reach lvl 6 you get 30ft of flying so that makes up for it.
Sanctuary vessel doesn't say once a day(or needs to recharge with a long rest) so after every combat after 10th level you can just hop into your vessel for a 10 min nap to recharge your spell slots and pull the fighter in to recharge his action surge and second wind, the cleric and paladin for their channel divinity, the druid for her wild shaped, and the monk to replenish their ki.
It does say that actually. "Sanctuary Vessel: When you enter your Genie's Vessel via the Bottled Respite feature..." "Bottled Respite: ...Once you enter the vessel, you can't enter again until you finish a long rest."
Warlock is the most dipped class, and with good reason, but if you're gonna go straight class warlock you can't go wrong with genie. The features you get at level 6, 10 and 14 (if your campaign gets that far) are all strong and viable. Nothing feels disappointing or lackluster. Genie is a subclass that delivers.
The thing about Warlock is not that he has lower number of spell slots its that its specialized and you need to know how to do it. A warlock will have lv5 4 slots at maximum , if you are a genie you can do a rest in 10 minutes so that is 8 slots per day. A wizard has 3lv5 3lv4 and 3lv3 slots the 8 slots if you take into consideration the upcast are the same in power. For lv1 slots a wizard has 4 slots but the warlock has invocation(Mask of many faces and misty visions make you a good spy and illusionist), that cancels the lv1 slots For the other lv2 slots you have other invocations that make up for that and if you want the single ability to fly with a genie without concentration is like having a better fly
I'm playing a 3 Glory Paladin/X Marid Genie that has some comparison to Arthas being corrupted by the Frostmourne. It's in Dungeon of the Mad Mage and I can't wait to get Blade of Disaster in several decades of play sessions.
Mighty genie, hear my wish: make this subclass a summoner where all the magic attributes belong to the pet while the PC is a squishy commoner who barks orders.
Im planning to play a warlock with marid geni as their patron and they're a wannabe pirate who makes a deal with the geni to become a pirate and they'll use a flintlock pistol as their spell casting focus (only functions as a actual gun for one shot) and throughout the campaign as they level they'll go from a gaunt man to a zombie like undead to an entire skeleton.
Genies is my favorite warlock subclass too, besides it can fin good in many characters because it have 4th choices for spells that affect other features on the subclass.
I played a human crusher do lock with moderate armor, repelling blast, and agonizing blast and I grabbed an eldritch mind. the control was excellent. I got summon shadowspawn for when they go-to spike growth strat wouldn't work but the dm never allowed me to purchase the item required to cast that spell. regardless it was an extremely fun character to play however the pure warlock build I had for it felt very limited and pretty much like just a martial, attacking each turn and not doing many tricks because you may have more than one combat between short rests. if i were to remake it i'd bite the bullet and either only multiclass into warlock after level 5 or hop out at level 3 after getting second level spells and the pact boon the help action every turn from the familiar and having the familiar constantly loaded to use their action to feed potions or administer health kits to downed players was clutch and using the bottled respite and elemental gift saved me a lot more times than one may think but i still didn't use the bottled respite feature every long rest.
My favorite thing about this subclass is that you can fall from any height with the entire party once per long rest after 10th level. Just hop into the vessel and either hover or just let the vessel fall down
Hello everyone. I have a question pertaining to the Warlock Genie's vessel. It says "The interior of the vessel is an extradimensional space in the shape of a 20-foot-raduis cylinder, 20 feet high, and resembles your vessel." Is there a way that something could Plane Shift or teleport into my vessel on a whim? Also, not sure if it works like this, but we found a jade that an enemy wants. If I brought it in, could they scry on it? I have a ring of Mind Shielding, so Idk if that matters in that case? I was thinking of bringing the jade into the ring, but then thought about if someone just gets into the ring with me.
Let’s assume you’re a Halfling (Nimble) Warlock and for whatever reason you already have the Crossbow Expert or Gunner feat (Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls). Is it better to launch an enemy up with a Repelling Blast from below or push and pull them through Spike Growth with Repelling Blast and Grasp of Hadar?
I'm currently playing an awakened pig genie warlock whose patron is just constantly low grade pissed off that I ate his former master and he pretty much had to awaken me to talk to me. Its probably the most fun I've had in a long time
one idea i had for a genie warlock was that the patron is the servant, as in somehow the character gained the favor of a genie and all spells are the patron casting them. bonus point if i get rogue levels to be more like a certain street rat.
One day I wanna try Coffee-Lock with Genie Warlock. If I can convince my DM to allow me to chain short rests in my vessel with Sanctuary Vessel, well... Things will get fun really quickly. Sooooo many sorcery points....
@@PiiskaJesusFreak Yassssss gooooooood! Though you also gotta get that multiclassing level balanced out. Wonder what the most optimal warlock and sorcerer ratio is...
Sorcery points capped at sorcerer level. 7 points per spell slot when you get 10minute short rest. Minimum level to 'efficient' conversion is 17. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely an eldritch battery. Looking at 12 4th and 6 1st slots an hour (since your sorcerery here only reaches 4th level) You'll have slots for days but idk what encounters are gonna request that.
@@SCh1m3ra I have no idea. Honestly, I think just having them would be neat. XD Though if you take into consideration spells that have a heavy spell slot upkeep. Ones that are normally unviable compared to the meta? Perhaps that would be fun... Like, getting animate dead and actually having a controlled army. I've never done coffee lock before, I would have to plan it out extensively.
So on the topic of flying warlocks, has anyone ever tried combining pact of the chain, chain master, and strixhaven initial to make a flying fractal mount familiar?
7:04 that combo would not work unless you're standing directly next to the target. RB says to push it up to 10ft AWAY from you. If you decide that this means diagonally, i could move someone sideways with RB as long as they end up at least 1ft further away from me and the line is straight. Clearly this is not RAW or RAI.
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Ah yes. The four genie types. Dao, Djinni, Efreeti, and...
_checks hastily-scribbled notes on hand._
..."Madrid, Spain."
Genie should never
Suffer unintended Consequences from the
Wish Spell.
It is important to note that in traditional genie literature, there is no mention of negative effects on genies when granting wishes. Therefore, it may not make sense to include such consequences in a game or story featuring genies.
Furthermore, the purpose of granting wishes is often to convince individuals to sign a pact with the genie. This pact would limit the genie's ability to use the unlimited wish spell for themselves or their friends.
If unintended consequences were to occur as a result of wishes granted by genies, it should be the person making the wish who suffers the consequences, not the genie. The genie's role is to facilitate the granting of the wish and uphold the terms of the pact.
In a game or story featuring genies, powerful individuals may seek out the protagonist's character in order to sign a pact and gain access to unlimited wishes. It is up to the DM to create a wish that moves the story forward and ensure that any unintended consequences are appropriately addressed.
Overall, it is important to stay true to the traditional genie literature when creating a game or story featuring genies. The focus should be on the pact between the genie and the wish-maker, rather than on negative consequences for the genie.
Marid Patron is the best option for making a warlock of Santa Claus. Cold resistance, flight speed, Detect Naughty and Nice (Detect Evil and Good), Create Cookies and Milk (Create Food and Water), a bag that's a lot roomier than it looks, winter-themed spells, and of course Wish.
Maybe ask your DM if Eldritch Blast can deal cold damage so you can throw snow balls at your enemies
@@Fakeout013 the cold damage is the snowball, the force damage is Holiday magic.
@@Fakeout013 Or you throw lumps of coal
@@eliasmolck5566 Yeah, about that. Warlocks can potentially take the Magic Stone cantrip.
Thank you for this, I've wanted to play a Santalock for years now!
Hey, the pronunciation was fine until you called the water genie the capital of Spain
I live in Madrid and I havent notice until you pointed that out haha
Yeah, I don't know the correct pronunciation, but I've always said MARE-id
I didn’t notice how you pronounced it but your comment sent me
@@Kiaulen just looked it up, Marid is an actual word in Arabic and that is probably the closest pronounciation a native english speaker will get
So close lmao
Currently playing a Variant Human Dao Genie Warlock whose patron is an ultimate gourmand. Price of the pact is that I spend ten years learning to be the best cook that I possibly can, and if judged worthy, I then spend ten years serving in the Dao's kitchens. Picked up the Chef feat for the CON bump and the flavor. Pact of the Tome, so it's a Cookbook of Shadows. Genie Vessel is an ornate pepper grinder, hope to stock interior with a small kitchen and a microbrewery.
well im taking this if you dont mind, i love the concept
"It's ah cookbook, ah cookbook!" ~ Troll Witch Doctor, WC3, a reference to a Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man".
The cook genie is actually just Gordon Ramsay in a bottle
That sounds like a character with a lot of flavor!
Lovely! How does dao work into the flavor? Have you worked in the spells in any special ways?
I rolled an Artificer /Genie Warlock as a meme build. Turned out pretty good. One tactic she had was , over a week, load up the genie bottle (yes bottle because it was fragile) with gun powder, oil, alchemist fire and the like . 20x20 ft is alot of stuff.
She would then use catapult (spell) launch the bottle, smashing it, and thus "every objects stored there harmlessly appears in the unoccupied space closest to the vessel former space".Tthen bonus action command the turret to shoot at the contents.
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BOOM!
1hour later and she started the process all over again.
That’s amazing
„We‘ll talk about that later, Alligator.“
He must have waited for sooo long to finally bring this pun. And it was so worth it 😂😂😂
I'm a fan of an old glass lantern as the magical bottle, but I can see the problem of "touch your thing" has with "well I just happen to be wearing my ring!" Personally I'd rule that all objects are easily carriable/on par with the ring. Because it's just flavour
I agree
"Flavour is Free", so I took a single level of Efreeti Warlock to represent my Wildfire Druid gaining additional powers after his life was saved by his wildfire spirit!
Earlier in the campaign, the druid Kellan received a "Moon Seed", a magic pinecone that functioned like the Moon Sickle from Tasha's but which could be worn or carried instead of wielded (it wasn't a weapon), and this pinecone became his wildfire spirit's home, where it slept when it wasn't summoned. Fast forward to 9th level, and Kellan sacrificed his life to stop an eruption from the Elemental Plane of Fire from spilling into the Prime Material ("If anyone has a chance of surviving this, it's me.") The elemental fires consumed his body, but his wildfire spirit - representing both destruction and rebirth - kept his soul safe, and a week later it "reincarnated" him into a new, partially-real body that's now an extension of the wildfire spirit.
I took a single level of Efreeti Warlock and re-flavoured it to represent Kellan's transformation and new source of power: The genie subclass gives him additional fire damage on his attacks, and the Moon Seed itself has become the "genie's vessel", so now Kellan can retreat inside the seed just like the wildfire spirit does. The spell list overlaps with Wildfire and Druid too much to be useful, but I took "Hellish Rebuke" from the base warlock list; when the constructed body is damaged, unstable flame can erupt out at the attacker. Optimal dip? Not really, but flavourful and fun.
two levels of warlock is considered pretty optimal for druid, given that a lot of the druid's strongest spells aren't reliant on DC you can just lean into cha
Seems neat. Only gripe is the vessel can't be a magical item but you n your DM must've ignored that n I don't blame ya. Resting inside something they've had for so long and means so much to them so much is great!
@@CasualLoLAddict why can't it? nothing in the text says it can't be:
"Your patron gifts you a magical vessel that grants you a measure of the genie’s power. The vessel is a Tiny object, and you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. You decide what the object is, or you can determine what it is randomly by rolling on the Genie’s Vessel table."
@@blitheringape5321 Two levels may be optimal for a premeditated multiclass, but this was a spur-of-the-moment choice after eight solid levels of being a druid. As a Wildfire Druid especially, Kellan is a caster - a blaster, a healer, a controller - and also a Shillelagh wielder, so the dip into Warlock was just for some fun features and not to make use of anything that relied on charisma (his "Fiery Rebuke" save DC is a bit lower than his other saves, for example, but I didn't mind).
Of note, I didn't dip warlock for Hex, Eldritch Blast, or (obviously) Hexblade.
@@CasualLoLAddict Yeah, we decided that it wouldn't break the item economy or anything if the vessel is an item you already have when you multiclass into Genie Warlock (as Kobold says, it could just be a ring you have on your hand and forget about), so it felt great being able to form a stronger bond with a favourite item we'd already added some flavour to.
I remember when Genie UA came out and I made a changeling warlock with a djinn patron. Based him on Frank Abagnale from Catch Me If You Can. Conman competing for the affections of his patron. Best character and this subclass enhanced every aspect of his being. W class.
*catch me if you can. Great movie, I have a Star Wars 5e operative who’s based off him.
Now you see me is a magic movie I believe.
@@AfroditeBell thats so embarrassing that i mistook an awesome movie for Now You See Me. Jesus.
Dang, i never realized that Warlock can do the infinite Simulacrum tech even better than wizards because of recharging Wishes
mystic arcanum + simulacrum is one helluva combo
For limited wish, an interesting thing you can do with it is actually take advantage of the armor proficiency from tenser’s transformation. Since it’s an ability to cast a spell the normal restrictions when you lack proficiency should be ignored. Then you just do pact of the blade and scare someone with 2d12 and 6d8 extra damage on a warlock with a flight speed.
Cool idea!
Genie does seem pretty neat, and I've seen someone with Pact of the Chain use their imp to carry their pact item around while the PC hid inside of it. Pretty smart!
Seeming: In addition to the disguise benefits, you can turn tanking on its head: Make the squishies look like heavies and the heavies like squishies.
Any enemy that picks their targets intelligently will be tricked into not doing so.
That would probably buy you one turn, maybe a little less against actually intelligent opponents who would question why the wizard is gripping his staff like a greatsword and charging at you, or why the heavily armored knight with the axe is running to a covered position and casting fireball. That being said, buying one turn of suboptimal actions on the enemy side in a combat that lasts 4 turns is pretty good.
One of *my* favorite uses of Seeming comes from a little bit of unique text that other disguising spells don't have...
You can cast it on unwilling creatures. Hear enemy reinforcements on the way? Cast seeming and change appearances with your enemies! Bind some enemy guards, seeming to make them all look like you and your party look like them and then escort them inside the enemy base. You don't get to use it like this *often*, (And the more enemies you do this to the less likely it is to succeed) but it can create some pretty ridiculous antics if you look for them.
I also do like that the resistance you get from Genie doesn't overlap with their related Gensai options (besides fire), keeping you from being "punished" by playing into that theme either.
Bonus points If your DM let's you add in the scion of elemental X (and bonus trait rule), gives it that extra bit of flavor to flush out the character more.
Fun fact: you can use tiny objects that do not have empty spaces in them if you really wanted to, as there is no limit about that.
A dagger is a tiny object and as such it can be used as a genie's Vessel. Does it count as a magical weapon? Who knows. Even if it does it's weak enough that it barely affects anything
Hexblade with extra steps
Another great advantage that the Daolock's Bludgeoning resistance gives them over any other genielock:
Falling damage is bludgeoning damage too. Admittedly, the genie warlock has some interesting ways around fall damage (Such as being the only class that can survive a fall into the bottomless pit of doom at level 1 as long as they have time to take an action to get into their vessel... or just turning on their magical flying) but sometimes falling happens before you have time to react, and PCs take a *lot* of falling damage.
Dao warlock is the best for the "Eldritch Cheese Grater," laying down Spike Growth and using Repelling Blast and Grasp of Hadar to grind your enemies to dust!
Since Flavor is Free, I should mention that this is a great pick to reflavor as a Draconic patron. A portable lair/hoard, elemental affinity, fly speed, it's all there.
this is my fav chain pact. with a pseudo dragon or imp you effectively just have a stealth plane that works for the whole party eventually. extremely fun and powerful. tons of shenanigans make this one my second fav pact.
Another thing that should be noted about the level 6 flying feature. Since you can hover that means you can fall prone in the sky. The rules for going prone while flying is that you fall UNLESS you can hover.
Being prone in the sky is great because ranges attacks have disadvantage aggainst you so most enemies still can't even touch you, but now most of the ones who can are going to have a harder time doing it (Realistically you wouldn't want to use this ability if your foe can fly anyway so it doesn't matter)
I think Kobold actually brought this up when discussing the twilight cleric, which can also fly at 6th level and do this exact same thing, idk why he didn't bring it up but it's veery useful.
Literally recently made a genie warlock.
Nutshell.
An autistic introvert Owlin and his best friend, an extrovert cheeky/snarky Pixie familiar (sprite)
She the pixie loves snuggling up in his poofed up neck feathers.
His vessel, a capsule bracelet is his stunningly beautiful safe space.
With her ability to look into hearts she helps him feel comfortable with people, or rightfully weary.
Thinking for names i came up with two that work very well.
Darius, Danielle.
Since they very feywild, it's perfect for the "give me you name" type scenarios.
Pixie "Hey sweetheart, im Dari, that's Dani"
Owlin "No. Im Dari, your Dani"
Pixie "heh or maybe im Dani, you get confused sometimes, so what's your name, or should i call ya Dabi?"
Kobold! You made my wish of a new video come True! Thank you!
11:20 "There's an armor problem" The problem is that you're required to wear a sleeveless vest, (If you don't have boobs you're expected not to wear a shirt underneath) and poofy pants, as well as those shoes with the curly toes.
Genie Warlock is so rad. I have a character who is a Storm Sorcerer 1/Genie Warlock 1. She worked in Sharn on the Lightning Rail but wasn't good at the engineering bc she was just magical not smart, and one day she accidentally disappeared a 750,000 GP train engine, and the Lightning Rail bosses told her she was gonna be in SO MUCH TROUBLE except a mysterious patron offered to pay her debt for her in exchange for her services, and that's how she ended up becoming a Genie Warlock
I always hit like on your videos, always amazing content. But today what's triggered me remembering to like was "omg ambience tracks is AMAZING"
I'm a big fan of dwarf Dao warlock to fix the AC problem. I can also see the strat of casting a concentration spell and dipping into the vessel being pretty good. If high enough level, I could take Arcanum that would be good for simulacrums and just have an entourage of myself to defend me while I some hookah in my genie palace mid combat
One thing you didn't mention about the vessel that is downright broken. It is a 10 ft radius by 20ft high cylinder extraplanar space that can fit into bags of holding without any issues AND has no weight limits. You can store so many things in here its basically a super bag of holding. Sure you can't use it against unwilling creatures or anything of the sort, but you can store so much stuff in there its insane, and even use it to double store itself in a bag of holding for even more shenanigans.
Mine in a game I'm playing stores our party Shield Guardian so he doesn't have to make checks and I just let him out during battle.
But you can only access it once per Long Rest, making it more of a "Safe Deposit Box of Holding". The description says it has to be carried out... unless you destroy the Vessel. Might be a good trick for a glass bottle Vessel (*smash*SUDDENLY GUARDIAN*), but it takes an hour to summon a new bottle
I thought two extradimensional spaces make a portal to the astral plane
I actually played this subclass and loved it, when with fire cause I seemed cool and I had fun with it. You can actually do some pretty fun rp stuff with bottled respite. I had the ring and stowed it places to listen in on conversations or have my party throw me across river's in the ring
One spell I recommend for Limited Wish is Leomund’s Secret Chest. It takes one action to cast and it allows for more storage by making a tiny chest and sending the bigger one to the Ethereal Plane.
It just means that you could min-max your bottle space by making a crap ton of those chests and neatly organize your Tiny Chest collection.
Just remember to bring it back and recast the spell after 60 days to make guarantee that your stuff isn’t lost forever.
I think it was DnD shorts that did the video about how you can combine Genie Warlock with Glyph of Warding to make the ultimate buff. Glyph of warding is no longer limited by travel. You can store multiple concentration buffs on separate glyphs and then activate all of them simultaneously when you like, all of them lasting for the extent of the duration. At 20th level if you went Wizard 17/Warlock 3 you can even multi-chain spells like True Polymorph (assuming ruling of stacking rather than overriding transformations). With enough Batman prep time you can then kill literally anything because nothing can hurt you.
The 10min. Short rest is awesome, but another ace up your sleeve is that with Sanctuary vessel and pact of the chain Imp, you can suck your whole party in and get a long rest while your Imp goes invisible and gets out of reach of any danger. The best part is that Bottled respite requires you to get a long rest after ENTERING the vessel, so once your party gets their long rest you can repeat this whenever you want. Really useful in long dungeons or other areas where everyone is low on resources. Can really ruin a DM's plans too so use sparingly!
Thank goodness you mentioned Dao with Crusher! It's a common build at our table because it's really fun for controlling enemies
Also you can fill the vessel whit Glyphs of Guarding whit buffs spells and give al your party fly/mage armor/haste and more, full duration and no concentration 🐊
Definitely would make for a great Dr. Fate cosplay character.
Dr. Fate has a strong earthen iconography with his Egyptian themed origin, so Dao would be flavorful.
Dr. Fate has a vast archive of magical books and arcane knowledge, so Pact of the Tome is a strong pick.
The Helm of Fate just requires a Helm for the Genie's Vessel feature. Possibly grab one of the available common magic helms from XGtE.
Any of the Invocations could be used in combination to represent Dr. Fate's magical feats.
I find that if you're creative enough, you can twist the entire mechanical concept of a "genie warlock" and instead have say, a demon in a lantern, an angel in a reliquary, evil in-laws in a Pringle's can, the possibilities are pretty expansive, it mostly just has to be "A powerful (elemental) creature bound to a handheld object you carry with you". Hells it can be a smart phone with a Warlocks-R-Us app where you cast magic from your phone, and as you gain levels you are just benefiting from the loyalty rewards program.
Gator has some sick moves!
My favorite concept for a Genie Warlock is playing a Genesi Warlock whose Genie Patron is their overprotective parent who insisted on traveling with their child and their friends.
Daolock Genasi is yet another way a player can legally have their parents be their patron other than Fiendlock Tiefling and Celestilock Aasimar
Undeadlock Dhampir with their vampire patron being their parent.
I was debating between this and Fathomless but you sold me. Dao warlock here I come
Casting wish once a day is mostly a way to create plot hooks for your DM instead of actually achieving anything, yet at the point that you can do this you will be starved for challenges anyways so that's probably sth good
So I’ve heard of a super combo that utilizes the Bottled Respite feature and Glyph of Warding. Basically if you store a buff spell in a Glyph of Warding, the spell can be used on someone and lasts the full duration without needing concentration.
Basically you can stack multiple glyphs all with different buff spells all set to trigger on the same space at the same command word. The main weaknesses of this is its REALLY expensive to make a lot of glyphs, but that’s negated of this is late levels, especially if you get the actual Wish spell. Another is if a Glyph of Warding is moved more than 10ft from the cast location, it dispels. You can beat that drawback with Genie Warlock by setting up the Glyphs inside your vessel. As the inside is an extradimensional space, even if the vessel is moving, the space inside isn’t.
Basically if the party is in a bad spot, the Warlock pops into their vessel, goes to the Glyphed spot, says “Wombo Combo”, and pops back out with every type to Smite spell applied to them at once.
This combo is viable without the warlock if you just have a home base you feel you may need to seriously defend one day to have a buff closet. This tactic could also be used against the party by enemy characters defending a fort if you really want to throw a challenge at the party. (And if the party knows about it and can figure out the trigger condition, maybe can steal the buffs for themselves for the encounter)
This is also my favorite subclass and pairs well with the CoffeeLock archetype
ok but hear me out
genie warlock who's patron is Santa Claus and you are Jack frost
I’ve been working on a concept based on a multiclass combo idea I had for a Draconic Sorcerer/Genie Warlock, pick Efreeti or Marid and match elements with the dragon, get level 6 Draconic Sorcerer, and now your attack roll cantrips do elemental damage from Genie, which gets boosted by Draconic 6! The story I’m going with is that a Dragon wishes for a descendant, and offers 2 vials of it’s blood to the Genie to make it happen. The genie would act as a guardian angel of sorts.
Amen. This Warlock Sub-class is arguably my favorite Sub-class in all of DnD 5e. It's the perfect Roleplaying sub-class in my opinion.
I love my Eloquence Bard / Genie Warlock, as an Elf Eladrin I only need to meditate for 4 hrs so right off the bat I was able to get a long rest in my bottle! :)
5:51 if you start with a magic item in your campain, making that item your vessel is really cool tho
Working on an Air Genasi Djinni-patron Warlock.I love the synergy and connection it builds.
Warlocks and seamen, always fiddling with their vessels.
You really undersold Limited Wish.
Sure, being able to cast "good" spells that you normally wouldn't be able to is nice, however, that's not the only thing it can do.
The biggest benefit is how supremely versatile it is by providing instant access to ANY 1 action spell of 6th level or lower. There are a LOT of really good, but extremely situational spells that hardly anyone will ever have at the ready: Knock, Passwall, Speedy Courier, to name a few. As well as a bunch of others that you just unexpectedly need (or don't have a class with access to it): Pass without Trace, Locate Creature/Object, Speak with Plants/Animals/Dead.
Been painting 40K orks and binging this stuff while I brainstorm campaign ideas. You never know you miss bagpipes until you don’t have them
Yay genie warloc dope! Love your work Mr tactics
Currently I'm playing a paladin/genie and I'm loving the abilities such as going into the ring so I can have an archer attach the ring to an arrow. Then you have an instant angry paladin in your face without the party having to get too close
a romanicish backstory for your genie warlocks I made myself. you were a lowly student at a high wizarding school and one day somehow fall in to a elemanal plane (what ever plane your genie is) and fall face to face with your soon to be patrion and and after some aid your choice of genie asks for you to be one of their few warlocks, you agree and stay for a while, but during that time you grow closer and closer to your patrion, you both realize that you both have feeling and become a couple and then you have your own reason for being where you are now, (if you want you could my you and your genie married and have your wedding ring as your genie vessel) Please let me know what you think I've never shared this on the internet, I hope you all like it! it might be a bit cringe but i like it
Glad you agree, this is also my favorite subclass
I made a Genie Warlock as a BBEG in one of my tables. using the Khayal, the Shadowfell Genie. and modifying the vessel and some other features to trap the party in the vessel as CC.
Playing a Dao Genie warlock (Echo Knight fighter MC) currently lvl 7 (4w /3f , planning to keep taking warlock)
Im a kenku child wearing heavy armor, and its great.
My party found a random ring on an enemy, and after a while food kept disappearing. After they set a trap they found out I was in the ring and travelling with them.
Man, that Crusher combo got me tempted to make a Daolock now...
perfect timing. i'm making a genie warlock rn. the vessel is a tea pot.
I just want to point out that it plays really well with fighter multiclass. Being able to action surge can get a lot of blasts going, and 3 levels of fighter gets you a fighter subclass, and still lets you get wish.
You said "Some people get mad when you point out an error in the game." And while some nerds do get upset just at the mention I think it's one thing to point out that the game is busted and wild and a whole different thing to try to pull some sneaky "Well ackshually...." type argument with the DM at your table, most people obsessed with these exceptions are trying to be disruptive at the table and thats rude to the DM who prepped and ran the session and also rude to the other players just trying to enjoy this game with friends.
With the level 10 feature you can literally just complete a whole long rest (assuming the vessel doesn’t get destroyed) also you can store useful things like health and haste potions in their and if it doesn’t break(by the sounds of it you can make a adamantite ring it’s probably not gonna break
There is nothing in the combination of crusher and repelling blast that would allow you to knock creatures on the same plane as you into the air to subsequently suffer falling damage.
One thing I do for ALL Warlocks is give them the ability to alter the damage type of their spells/abilities to a type that's associated with their Patron. For example Dao get Bludgeoning the energy takes the form of magical boulders/rocks, Ifrit would get Fire damage, Djinni would get Thunder damage as the spell turns into a powerful blast of wind, and Marid would get Cold damage as it becomes the freezing water of the watery deep.
I'm tired of you reading my mind Kobold! Everything you make a video it was about something I just thought of! Whatever part of my brain you stole I'm gonna come and Modify Memory it out your head!!!
Love the content Kobold! 💘
"...and madrid for water" dislexia kicking in i see
Probably mentioned but Mountain Dwarf is a good way to help with AC for this subclass, and Mountain/Dao go together well thematically. Only 25ft movement but once you reach lvl 6 you get 30ft of flying so that makes up for it.
You know pact of the chain might be really good with this sub-class
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Sanctuary vessel doesn't say once a day(or needs to recharge with a long rest) so after every combat after 10th level you can just hop into your vessel for a 10 min nap to recharge your spell slots and pull the fighter in to recharge his action surge and second wind, the cleric and paladin for their channel divinity, the druid for her wild shaped, and the monk to replenish their ki.
It does say that actually. "Sanctuary Vessel: When you enter your Genie's Vessel via the Bottled Respite feature..." "Bottled Respite: ...Once you enter the vessel, you can't enter again until you finish a long rest."
@@MafiaCow01 ah, didn't catch that. thanks
Nice work on the video!
Okay I'm convinced, my next character will be a Dao-lock
kobold, robo-kobold, or maybe an awakened dog warlock in the making.
Warlock is the most dipped class, and with good reason, but if you're gonna go straight class warlock you can't go wrong with genie. The features you get at level 6, 10 and 14 (if your campaign gets that far) are all strong and viable. Nothing feels disappointing or lackluster. Genie is a subclass that delivers.
The thing about Warlock is not that he has lower number of spell slots its that its specialized and you need to know how to do it.
A warlock will have lv5 4 slots at maximum , if you are a genie you can do a rest in 10 minutes so that is 8 slots per day.
A wizard has 3lv5 3lv4 and 3lv3 slots the 8 slots if you take into consideration the upcast are the same in power.
For lv1 slots a wizard has 4 slots but the warlock has invocation(Mask of many faces and misty visions make you a good spy and illusionist), that cancels the lv1 slots
For the other lv2 slots you have other invocations that make up for that and if you want the single ability to fly with a genie without concentration is like having a better fly
I'm playing a 3 Glory Paladin/X Marid Genie that has some comparison to Arthas being corrupted by the Frostmourne. It's in Dungeon of the Mad Mage and I can't wait to get Blade of Disaster in several decades of play sessions.
Mighty genie, hear my wish: make this subclass a summoner where all the magic attributes belong to the pet while the PC is a squishy commoner who barks orders.
Im planning to play a warlock with marid geni as their patron and they're a wannabe pirate who makes a deal with the geni to become a pirate and they'll use a flintlock pistol as their spell casting focus
(only functions as a actual gun for one shot) and throughout the campaign as they level they'll go from a gaunt man to a zombie like undead to an entire skeleton.
Genies is my favorite warlock subclass too, besides it can fin good in many characters because it have 4th choices for spells that affect other features on the subclass.
You can also have flight with a raven/owl ect from your tome if you take the ritual invocation.
I’m playing a Bugbear Efreeti Warlock rn, pretty sick subclass
The most common type of fire damage is friendly
Aww thought you were gonna talk about the fun interaction with glyph of warding and genie.
If I played a Genie Warlock the somatic component for my spells would be folding my arms and blinking.
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Should do Eldritch Knight and tell if it's more than base Fighter with Shield and a familiar
I played a human crusher do lock with moderate armor, repelling blast, and agonizing blast and I grabbed an eldritch mind. the control was excellent. I got summon shadowspawn for when they go-to spike growth strat wouldn't work but the dm never allowed me to purchase the item required to cast that spell.
regardless it was an extremely fun character to play however the pure warlock build I had for it felt very limited and pretty much like just a martial, attacking each turn and not doing many tricks because you may have more than one combat between short rests. if i were to remake it i'd bite the bullet and either only multiclass into warlock after level 5 or hop out at level 3 after getting second level spells and the pact boon
the help action every turn from the familiar and having the familiar constantly loaded to use their action to feed potions or administer health kits to downed players was clutch and using the bottled respite and elemental gift saved me a lot more times than one may think but i still didn't use the bottled respite feature every long rest.
2:50 Spike Growth also opens up the door for a subset of the ghostlance build called “Genielance”.
Daolance.
My favorite thing about this subclass is that you can fall from any height with the entire party once per long rest after 10th level. Just hop into the vessel and either hover or just let the vessel fall down
You should also consider putting death ward on your limited wish.
It's a fantastic option if you don't have 100+ hp and there's a lich nearby
Bad advice on Simulacrum. RAI and save advice suggests it was meant to block all expendable abilities from recovering on a long rest.
Hello everyone. I have a question pertaining to the Warlock Genie's vessel. It says "The interior of the vessel is an extradimensional space in the shape of a 20-foot-raduis cylinder, 20 feet high, and resembles your vessel." Is there a way that something could Plane Shift or teleport into my vessel on a whim? Also, not sure if it works like this, but we found a jade that an enemy wants. If I brought it in, could they scry on it? I have a ring of Mind Shielding, so Idk if that matters in that case? I was thinking of bringing the jade into the ring, but then thought about if someone just gets into the ring with me.
Let’s assume you’re a Halfling (Nimble) Warlock and for whatever reason you already have the Crossbow Expert or Gunner feat (Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged attack rolls). Is it better to launch an enemy up with a Repelling Blast from below or push and pull them through Spike Growth with Repelling Blast and Grasp of Hadar?
I'm currently playing an awakened pig genie warlock whose patron is just constantly low grade pissed off that I ate his former master and he pretty much had to awaken me to talk to me. Its probably the most fun I've had in a long time
Tenser's Transformation and Transport Via Plants are also good options :3
one idea i had for a genie warlock was that the patron is the servant, as in somehow the character gained the favor of a genie and all spells are the patron casting them. bonus point if i get rogue levels to be more like a certain street rat.
definitely playing this next time i make a warlock
One day I wanna try Coffee-Lock with Genie Warlock. If I can convince my DM to allow me to chain short rests in my vessel with Sanctuary Vessel, well... Things will get fun really quickly. Sooooo many sorcery points....
Pair with aberrant mind sorcerer for more effective spell slot conversion
@@PiiskaJesusFreak Yassssss gooooooood! Though you also gotta get that multiclassing level balanced out. Wonder what the most optimal warlock and sorcerer ratio is...
Sorcery points capped at sorcerer level. 7 points per spell slot when you get 10minute short rest.
Minimum level to 'efficient' conversion is 17.
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely an eldritch battery. Looking at 12 4th and 6 1st slots an hour (since your sorcerery here only reaches 4th level)
You'll have slots for days but idk what encounters are gonna request that.
@@SCh1m3ra I have no idea. Honestly, I think just having them would be neat. XD Though if you take into consideration spells that have a heavy spell slot upkeep. Ones that are normally unviable compared to the meta? Perhaps that would be fun... Like, getting animate dead and actually having a controlled army.
I've never done coffee lock before, I would have to plan it out extensively.
Bludgeoning is actually the 5th most rarely resisted damage type I believe, fire is FAAAR more common
So on the topic of flying warlocks, has anyone ever tried combining pact of the chain, chain master, and strixhaven initial to make a flying fractal mount familiar?
do note that a bag of holding or portable hole will also conflict with your vessel! (found out the hard way)
7:04 that combo would not work unless you're standing directly next to the target.
RB says to push it up to 10ft AWAY from you. If you decide that this means diagonally, i could move someone sideways with RB as long as they end up at least 1ft further away from me and the line is straight. Clearly this is not RAW or RAI.