Originally Posted by Elebhra
If Valor Bard and War Domain Cleric can't be frontliners, how come Hexblade can be one?
Because warlock has devil sight and darkness combo for instance. It is far more powerful than having medium armor + shield proficiency

Originally Posted by Elebhra
In PHB you can't have a cake and eat the cake, so yeah, if you want to be doing both melee and casting something needs to be sacrificed. You can focus fully on being melee character with Pact of the Blade, but you won't be as good of the blaster if you invested solely in Charisma. That's fine.
And at the 13-14 lvl(possible lvl cap in BG3) you become just a little bit of everything but good at nothing

add hexblade warlock, pls