Finesse: When Making an Attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the Attack and Damage Rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls. Versatile: This weapon can be used with one or two hands.
Does pact of the blade give you proficiency?
Pact of the Blade neither requires nor grants proficiency with a magic weapon that you turn into your pact weapon.
What’s the difference between finesse and non-finesse weapons?
There are a limited number of finesse weapons in 5e, and they tend to do a bit less damage (1 or 2 points less on average) than non-finesse weapons. Most finesse weapons also lack the properties that some of the more powerful 5e weapons have, such as Reach and Heavy (which meshes well with the Great Weapon Master feat ).
What are the benefits of Pact of the blade?
What is the benefits of Pact of the Blade instead of just using the “normal” weapons available to a Warlock (assuming I want to use Melee weapons at all)? You are proficient with it. While a warlock is only proficient in “simple weapons” you can create any melee weapon and you are proficient with it.
Can a pact weapon be a real weapon?
It also worth noting that should you want to make a real weapon your Pact Weapon, the same principle applies: you can use the ritual on a weapon you are not proficient into, and once it is your Pact Weapon you are proficient into it every time you summon it. There isn’t a consensus on whether RAW states this or not.
Can a warlock use the Pact of the blade?
I have the pact boon “pact of the blade” which allows my character to create a pact weapon, so a melee weapon. My question is…can my character say, use a greatsword? I was told large weapons such as that can impose disadvantage, but with this pact, I have prof in whatever weapon is summoned. Does it just balance itself out?
