Quote Originally Posted by Mongobear View Post
I've never actually been able to put it to words, but this is pretty close to why I dislike Hexblade outside of a 3 level dip for MC synergy. Almost nothing it gains after 1st level actually has anything to do with what the subclass is supposed to be.

Armor of Hexes is close, but I hate it. The Spectre is dumb, and has nothing to do with the rest of the kit, and Master of Hexes should've been a baseline mechanic of Hexblades Curse, not a capstone.

Looking back, my fix i posted about earlier was a quick bandaid we made up I a single night, I should go back and actually put forth some effort into making it more synergized with the rest of the class.
If you consider the hexblade to instead have the Shadow fell or raven Queen as patron, the class abilities work. The spell list, however, is rubbish. When I played one, my DM allowed me to redo the spell list with more debuff spells which better fluff as curses. It gave the RP flavour I wanted. Because "magic sword" is RUBBISH as a patron.