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Yogibear41
2015-01-25, 02:27 PM
Is there any Prestige Class that could make a Hexblade/Warlock Multiclass be able to work, primarily with a focus on debuffing and melee combat?

Troacctid
2015-01-25, 04:28 PM
No, no such prestige class exists.

Yogibear41
2015-01-25, 04:48 PM
No, no such prestige class exists.


I summon a host of 3rd party books to come to my aid!

Troacctid
2015-01-25, 05:39 PM
I don't think you're going to find anything even in 3rd party material--Hexblade and Warlock aren't OGL material, so there'd be legal issues with referencing them.

Anyway, the two classes are fundamentally anti-synergistic. Warlocks are almost exclusively ranged debuffers, and the options they do have for melee debuffing don't play very nicely with multiclassing.

But if you're absolutely set on it, you can try the Hex Pact feat, which is homebrew:


Hex Pact [General]
You are trained in using your hexblade's curse in tandem with your eldritch blasts.
Prerequisites: Hexblade's curse 1/day, eldritch blast 1d6
Benefits: Your Hexblade and Warlock levels stack for determining the uses per day and save DC of your hexblade's curse ability, and for determining the damage and caster level of your eldritch blast.

ILM
2015-01-25, 05:56 PM
Well, there's always the eldritch theurge in CM to progress invocations, eldritch blast damage and arcane spellcasting. Medium BAB too.

Xerlith
2015-01-25, 06:32 PM
Sooooo, hypothetically... An Unseelie Fey Warlock4/Hexblade 4/Swordsage2

Feats:
1st: Precocious Apprentice (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20041114a) (if qualifying for, say, Jade Phoenix mage)
3rd: Eldritch Claws
6th: Practiced Spellcaster (Warlock)
9th: Beast Strike
12: Craven

Hexblade ACF: Dark Companion, Unseelie Fey power Winter's Chill....

Whatever you do, it works better without either hexblade or Warlock though...

Thurbane
2015-01-25, 07:00 PM
The Practiced Magic feat from Shackled City might help with your Invocation CL:

Practiced Magic [General]
Your spell-like abilities are more powerful.
Prerequisite: Spellcraft 4 ranks, spell-like abilities.
Benefit: Your caster level for your spell-like abilities increases by +4. This can't increase your caster level for spell-like abilities past your Hit Dice. However, even if you can't benefit from the full bonus immediately, if you later gain noncaster-level Hit Dice you may be able to apply the rest of the bonus.
If you have spellcasting ability from multiple sources (from gained templates or from a character class) you must choose which set of spell-like abilities gain the feat's effect.
This does not affect how often you can use your spell-like abilities in a day. It only increases your caster level, which would help you penetrate spell resistance, increases the duration and damage of some spells, and so on.
Special: You may select this feat multiple times. Each time you choose it, you must apply it to a different set of spell-like abilities.

Maybe see if you can get a theurge feat homebrewed that allows some Warlock and Hexblade class features to stack, similar to Daring Outlaw etc.

malonkey1
2015-01-25, 07:13 PM
The Practiced Magic feat from Shackled City might help with your Invocation CL:

Practiced Magic [General]
Your spell-like abilities are more powerful.
Prerequisite: Spellcraft 4 ranks, spell-like abilities.
Benefit: Your caster level for your spell-like abilities increases by +4. This can't increase your caster level for spell-like abilities past your Hit Dice. However, even if you can't benefit from the full bonus immediately, if you later gain noncaster-level Hit Dice you may be able to apply the rest of the bonus.
If you have spellcasting ability from multiple sources (from gained templates or from a character class) you must choose which set of spell-like abilities gain the feat's effect.
This does not affect how often you can use your spell-like abilities in a day. It only increases your caster level, which would help you penetrate spell resistance, increases the duration and damage of some spells, and so on.
Special: You may select this feat multiple times. Each time you choose it, you must apply it to a different set of spell-like abilities.

Maybe see if you can get a theurge feat homebrewed that allows some Warlock and Hexblade class features to stack, similar to Daring Outlaw etc.

How about this:


Hex-Bound Warlock:
Dark powers mingle within you.
Prerequisites: Hexblade's Curse, Eldritch Blast, at least 1 Least Invocation
Benefit: Your Hexblade levels count as Warlock levels for determining your Caster level for invocations (including your eldritch blast damage. Additionally, your Warlock and Hexblade levels stack for determining how many uses of your Hexblade's Curse you receive each day (but not its severity), as well as familiar benefits, if you possess a familiar.

Yogibear41
2015-01-25, 09:59 PM
If you take precocious apprentice as a hex blade, do you just add your caster level to the level check, does that mean before you have no caster level(level 1-3) you add 0 to the roll or are you unable to do it?

Jeff the Green
2015-01-25, 10:10 PM
Since we're looking at homebrew anyway, there's the Eldritch Blade (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=8154036&postcount=29), a theurge PrC which I find underwhelming, and the Bez-Kismet (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?153696-The-Bez-Kismet-or-a-rebalanced-Hexblade-with-a-much-more-original-name!), T.G. Oskar's Hexblade fix that can sub out spells for invocations.

Xerlith
2015-01-26, 04:23 AM
If you take precocious apprentice as a hex blade, do you just add your caster level to the level check, does that mean before you have no caster level(level 1-3) you add 0 to the roll or are you unable to do it?

Warlock has a caster level. You use Warlock level.

Psyren
2015-01-26, 10:03 AM
I would just play the Hexcrafter (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus/archetypes/paizo---magus-archetypes/hexcrafter) Magus (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus) archetype from Pathfinder. You get at-will powers like a Warlock (i.e. witch hexes), spells like a hexblade, and you can deliver a curse and full-attack in the same round like a hexblade, only much more often.