Now on to Wyll. Calling him the Blade of the Frontiers while making it painfully obvious that Wyll couldn't beat a kid without Mizura's aid is extremely limiting. And even bad from a gameplay perspective as you are given at level 1 a weapon with which you aren't proficient and must pass on to Lae'zel.
See, you're missing the point of Wyll. Wyll was written by white writers to be a black man who was incompetent and talentless on his own, so he got his powers the easy and lazy way by consorting with devils, to contrast him with the white spellcaster who was so smart and awesome at magic that a goddess got horny for him.
Making a coherent and complete story for him was never a priority for Larian.
No, I understood those things. Thing is, I feel Larian over comited to Wyll being a sword wielding Folk Hero. If Larian were to change Wyll title to "Brave of the Frontier" or something more ambiguous, then all Warlock pacts would become lore accurate for Wyll, increasing overall satisfaction.
I think that these changes would be to the detriment of the story and characters... Larian trying to make them as changeable as possible would only serve to flatten them and make them more limited in how well they can be characterised. They should be written with class in mind as well as background, and players respeccing them shouldn't be accounted for. If a player does so, they should accept going outside of canon.
I'd argue that in 5e, background matters more than the actual class, so recalibrating the story so it makes more use of the background and less use of the class would be an upgrade. They used this formula for Dark Urge and it worked perfectly.
