Guys I am starting to believe that all this stuff coming out of nonsense foreign articles and unknown publications is literally made up nonsense. I just saw someone else post more nonsense articles talking about pact of the blade warlocks being confirmed in BG3 when Larian themselves literally posted the full list of classes and subclasses in the game less than two weeks ago and pact of the blade warlock was NOT on there. For now let's calm down and wait for official word from Larian or the release of the game because a lot of this might just literally made up trash.
Pact Boon is a base Warlock class feature, not a sub-class.
Pact of the Blade is a worthless pact without The Hexblade subclass/patron which is not in BG3. Long story short is without The Hexblade patron your pact weapon depends on your strength modifier and doesn't get extra attacks...so you might as well try to beat your enemies with a wooden stick for the difference it makes.
All Blade Pact warlocks have access to extra attack through the "Thirsting Blade" invocation. Hexblade bladepact must also take that invocation to get extra attack. The primary reason that blade pact needs Hexblade is the charisma to attack feature (which vanilla warlocks do not get). A secondary reason is that Hexblade grants medium armor, but there are other ways to get that so it is less crucial.
If Larian is indeed including charisma to attack/defense as part of the blade pact feature then hexblade is really no longer necessary to make a blade pact warlock.
Note: a hexblade that does not take blade pact does not get access to thirsting blade, and therefor does not get extra attack. The extra attack feature is NOT tied in any way to hexblade. It is OP because of the charisma to attack/damage feature, which saves blade pact from its otherwise crippling multiple attribute dependency.
