kamikasei
2008-04-25, 02:12 PM
So, these two classes sure have compatible fluff, and not entirely incompatible mechanics (with Binders' at-will-given-cooldown powers). After reading yet another mention of "take a dip in Binder to go into Hellfire Warlock" over on the Wizards' boards, I'm wondering how far you could go in just merging the classes. Binder is often said to be well balanced while Warlocks, barring careful exploitation of the latest supplements, are a bit below par; if you were making a bindlock, what features would you take from which?
The easy and obvious option would be giving warlocks full binding progression or making binders full invokers. Either is probably a bit too strong. Perhaps we could take binders, lose some of their proficiencies, give them eldritch blast, and let them choose one invocation per vestige bound, freely changeable per day (or giving each vestige a list of associated invocations)?
Possibly this is a Homebrew thing - I'm not sure, since I'm not really looking to build a class, more wondering how far either existing class could be powered up by nicking features from the other.
The easy and obvious option would be giving warlocks full binding progression or making binders full invokers. Either is probably a bit too strong. Perhaps we could take binders, lose some of their proficiencies, give them eldritch blast, and let them choose one invocation per vestige bound, freely changeable per day (or giving each vestige a list of associated invocations)?
Possibly this is a Homebrew thing - I'm not sure, since I'm not really looking to build a class, more wondering how far either existing class could be powered up by nicking features from the other.