2.) Repelling Blast would be AMAZING for Warlocks with BG3's verticality-focused maps...if everyone didn't get Shove as a BA. Since they do, it's redundant.
Feel free to corect me ... but when you shove, your enemy can make saving throw ... while with Repelling Blast its 100% (presuming you hit ofc).
It still seems quite fine to me. O_o
That's correct (mostly. The enemy should make an opposed Athletics or Acrobatics skill check, not a saving throw), but your word "presuming" is doing a lot of work in that parenthetical! You should have a similar chance to hit with EB as a martial character has with Shove, but everyone gets BA Shove for free while Warlocks still have to take an invocation to get Repelling Blast. BA Shove doesn't completely invalidate warlocks' Repelling Blast, but it does majorly intrude on an area that warlocks can possible excel at, making them a relatively less powerful class.
The benefit to Repelling Blast is that if you hit you'll do damage AND shove. In that way, it's most comparable to Fighter's Pushing Attack or Monk's Open Hand Technique (2 other things which BA Shove steps on the toes of).
