Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback How to fix the melee warlock problem

That's true, when i was dming a campaign, one the players wanted to play a melee fiend lock. When they got to level 7, and as monsters became stronger and stronger and gained more hp, he just couldn't keep up. He was a new player so when i first proposed the Hexblade for a melee lock he was hesitant, so inevitably he encountered issues later on, although i tried to help him with some items. So we had a talk inevitably.

He was adamant however, that he wanted a Fiend patron for flavor and backround, so what we ended up doing, is allow him to retrain with hexblade and eldritch smite, but reflavored the hexblade to something akin to a Sword of Zariel subclass. Basically a hexblade, but the patron was Zariel, an Archdevil, that gave him one of her weapons, and the abilities a bit reflavored but with the same mechanics.