The bow is treated as an improvised weapon You are making a melee weapon attack, so the ability modifier normally used is Strength. However, as a Hexblade Warlock (XGtE, p. 55-56), you can use your Charisma as the ability modifier instead of Strength.
Can your pact weapon also be your hex weapon?
They can be two different weapons. This means every weapon you create with the Pact of the Blade class feature benefits from the Hex Warrior ability. The “If you later” part of the rule is there to cover the fact you gain Hex Warrior at 1st level but gain Pact Boon later at 3rd level, if you choose it.
What book is Hexblade warlock in?
Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
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What is Hexblade warlock?
A hexblade was an arcane spellcaster who combined magical power with martial skill. A hexblade’s power could manifest itself spontaneously, similarly to a sorcerer’s magic, or be granted via a warlock pact.
Do you need a pact blade for Hexblade?
It’s not required but expands your options. Pact Blade is only way to get a two-handed Hexblade weapon, plus the new Improved Pact Weapon and other invocations, along with making your weapon automatically magical to ignore nearly all resistances and immunities.
Is the Hex warrior the same as the Pact of the blade?
In fact “Hex Warrior” provided armor and shield is still good on a ranged caster and only the martial proficiency and channeled Hex Warrior weapon is useful in melee and is pretty much redundant to the pact of the blade pact weapon because you are automatically proficient with your pact weapon.
Do You House Rule a pact of the blade Warlock?
Most DMs would be inclined to house-rule the other way, making summoning easier (a bonus action or an object interaction), because it’s Cool to summon the weapon in the battle, instead of drawing it from a scabbard lika an ordinary weapon. Anyway, if your DM insists on the summoning being unreliable, just keep the weapon summoned and in a scabbard.
Can a warlock use a pact weapon as a bow?
So, as far as I understanding the improved pact weapon invocation allows a warlock’s pact weapon to be a bow, act as the focus, AND get a plus one to attack and damage. Now pact of the blade allows you to essentially pull a magical (for the purpose of overcoming resistance) weapon from pocket space.
