Coffeelocks will not really be viable for the following reasons:
1) No more "one levelled spell per turn" limit
Yes, Eldritch Blast is strong. It is certainly stronger than doing nothing on your Bonus Action. But are you SURE it is stronger than a high level spell? A disintegrate, haste, chain lightning, ...?
2) Quicken costs 3 sorcery points now
The cost of quicken was increased by 50%, because you can now cast leveled spells. That means at lv 12 (so sorc level 10 or 9), you can use it 3 times per long rest!!!
3) No hexblade in the game
This means no hexblades curse, which doubles your crit chance, and is a stronger hex spell without concentration. It also means no medium armor or shields for high defense, and no shield spell, so you will take warlock spells that are not really useful to you in all likelihood
4) No clockwork soul sorcerer
This is BY far the strongest sorcerer, and any sorcerer without this subclass is a lot weaker already. Half the spells, no wall of force, no armor of agathys + bastion of law, ...
5) No Independent resting
Where Sorlocks shine is that you can chose not to long rest at all (by taking a race that does not need to sleep in earlier versions, and now using greater restoration from divine soul sorcerer/ clockwork soul sorcerer to not get exhaustion levels)
But now, you can not short rest while your friends long rest. If they long rest, all of you do. Short rests are also limited to three per long rest (if you use a bard), so you can not spam them.
Finally, yes, you can short rest three times before the big boss fight and stock up on sorcery points and low level spell slots. But then again, every party can rest before every fight, if they want to, and that already makes the game trivial. Even a normal sorcerer on higher levels will not blow all his spells on a single boss, so is this even necessary/ beneficial?
Last edited by Qoray; 14/07/23 07:28 AM.
