Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What can I do with Wyll if I don't want to spawn Eldritch Blast?

Not a fan of Eldritch Blast, but Wyll seems only good at his Charisma. I used to give him a medium armor feat at lvl4 to have him been my tank, but he doesn't look cool at all with medium armor and shield, unlike Shadowheart. Tried to make him a counter fire/cold rapier but doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

Wyll actually can make a decent tanky character with the moderately armored feat. The problem is that eldritch blast spamming is superior to his melee capabilities. This may change on full release if they add the Pact of the Blade feature, which should let Wyll change other weapons into his pact weapon (rapier) and let him have an extra melee attack at level 5 and finally will add his charisma modifier to his melee damage as necrotic damage type at level 12. That should make him more viable as a frontline melee. He still won't outshine the damage say a paladin could put out but he would definitely be better as a frontline melee than he currently is in EA.

In any case let him cut himself with the dagger to improve hit chance before each attack

Spam scorchung ray after hexing

Wyll is going to do mediocre damage with weapon's even with blade pact because his stats don't line up properly. This can be fixed if it is possible to move him to hexblade, but without that his stats are just not set up for swording.

Since we don’t have Pact of the Blade and the Thirsting Blade invocation, there’s not much he can do besides Eldritch Blast. No Warlock has a good alternative at the moment.

I know this isnt the topic question ...
But what is wrong about spaming Eldrich Blast?

Good question. Perhaps if resting and restoring slots for all the fancy magic stuff wasn't that easy, being able to spam a fantastic cantrip like Eldritch Blast would not be seen as that bad? I'd wish a wizard or priest would have such a nice spell. Would be unfair, of course.

For myself, I enjoy Eldritch Blasting and see nothing wrong (and plenty right) with a warlock build based on it. But I do find it gets a bit repetitive on Wyll after multiple playthroughs. The other EA companions seem to have more obvious alternative ways they can be specced to play differently in different runs, keeping things fresher and more interesting. Whereas, like the OP, I’ve struggled to find different things I can effectively do with Wyll, which means I’ve often left him out of my parties.

Hopefully his stats will be rejigged and we’ll have more warlock subclass and multi-class options in the full release, to help with his replay potential.

I see ...
Well, i gues thats just cost of being a Warlock.

Especially, if Larian assumes we'll solve our variety needs through mods, and just perfect what they implement.