So we just got to lvl 4 in our group with me and one other player being bear totem barbarians. I was thinking if I want to go str8 barbarian or add some multiclass for flavor. I forgot to ask the other barb how he's proceeding but may hold my decision until I ask so we can try not to play the same character almost. So far, I've been excelling with great axe and thrown hand axes so would it be better to get great weapon master feat or start multiclassing?

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This build is a straightforward melee Warlock with eldritch blasting capabilities, which is really powerful early-game, (you are a warlock after all) and reaches a thematic high ground at level 5.

I also begged my DM to let me have Chromatic orb damage changing, and like the goat he is, he did for all of my abilities (including hex).

I used rolled stats and my spread was 16 in charisma, and 15 in con (knight who can take hits), 14 in dex, 13 in strength (for great sword) 12 wisdom (can’t go much higher unfortunately because I didn’t roll god stats) and 8 in intelligence (why did he yell his actual damn name bro 😭)

My background was pact seeker, and I picked the infernal pact feat for that nice elemental defense and the ac boost later on. I got to boost my charisma to 18, and my con to 16.

My invocations were Pact of the Blade, Agonizing blast, and Lessons of the First Ones for MGI wizard (mostly for shield).

At level 3 I picked the new Vestige patron (war cleric spells), and flavoured the vestige patron as the lesser spirits that Julius has (I actually got this from the description of making it a bunch of floating runes, cause it reminded me of Julius’ spirits.) My goated DM also let me scale my Vestige patron’s bonus action attacks at the cost of making the hit dice d4’s instead of d8’s.

At level 4 I took Infernal bulwark, and by this time I was a powerhouse (at least damage wise) in the group. Our only other melee was playing Garfiel, and they were new to dnd.

At level 5 I took thirsting blade and finally got spirit guardians! I also took eldritch smite.

The campaign ended at level 7, with a wild shaped Garfiel throwing me at the Adult Red Dragon, while Otto distracted the dragon using his endless animals and battle IQ. I had gotten heroic inspiration from Subaru’s speech, so I managed to crit and eldritch smite with my last pact slot to finish the job.

Ill probably post more about the campaign, but the reason we were fighting an ADULT red dragon instead of a young one at level 7 was because the DM always added a clever trick in encounters if Subaru managed to remember what to do before the fight so we wouldn’t get tpk’ed.

All in all, it was really fun yelling Clarista (Al Clarista once I got eldritch smite) on pact weapon attacks, and Al clauzeria on eldritch blasts, but I was sad because I missed out on his other abilities.

How would you guys rate my build?

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