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The Primal Protector
Primary Combat Role: Battlefield Control
Secondary Combat Roles: Single-Target Damage
Out of Combat Role: Healing/Restoration, Mobility
Lineage: Sylvan Elf
Background: Lowlife
The Ancient Forest subclass injects a Druidic feel into the Warlock base, giving it some staple Druid control spells in Entangle and Spike Growth, as well as emergency resurrection in Revivify. A dip into Law Cleric shores up the character's defenses, providing medium armor and shield proficiency as well as the Shield spell, and gives access to Healing Word as well.
For Eldritch Invocations, we trick out Eldritch Blast to its maximum extent, enhancing our ability to control enemy movement. Once we have third level spells, particularly Hypnotic Pattern, we pick up a second level of Law Cleric for Channel Divinity: Force of Law, giving us a potent upgrade to use with save or suck spells. A third level of Law Cleric gives several additional low level spell slots which are useful for Shield, Entangle, and Spike Growth, as well as access to second level Cleric spells. Most of these aren't that useful with our low Wisdom score, but Aid in particular, cast between rests with Pact Magic slots, buffs the whole party's hitpoints with a short-rest-renewable resource. By Level 12 when we have 5th level Pact Magic slots, Aid provides 20 hitpoints to each target.
For higher level Warlock spells, the focus is split between control spells that can benefit from Force of Law (Banishment) and spells with out-of-combat utility (Fly and Dimension Door), which are well suited to Warlock due to its ability to recover the slot by short resting.
STR: 9
DEX: 13+1
CON: 14
INT: 8
WIS: 13
CHA: 15+2
1: Cleric (Law) 1 [Feat: Telekinetic (+1 CHA)]
2: Warlock (Ancient Forest) 1
3: Warlock 2 [Eldritch Invocations: Agonizing Blast, Repelling Blast]
4: Warlock 3 [Pact Boon: Pact of the Chain]
5: Warlock 4 [Feat: Flawless Concentration]
6: Warlock 5 [Eldritch Invocation: Hindering Blast]
7: Cleric 2
8: Cleric 3
9: Warlock 6
10: Warlock 7 [Eldritch Invocations: +Grasping Blast]
11: Warlock 8 [ASI: +2 CHA]
12: Warlock 9 [Eldritch Invocations: +??]
1: Bless, Healing Word, ^Shield, ^Heroism
2: Entangle, Goodberry
3: +Pact Mark
4: -Pact Mark, +Spike Growth, +Shatter
5: +Misty Step
6: -Shatter, +Hypnotic Pattern, +Revivify
7: +Shield of Faith
8: -Shield of Faith, +Aid, +Lesser Restoration
9: +Counterspell
10: -Misty Step, +Dimension Door, +Banishment
11: +Fly
12: -Revivify, +Banishment, +Insect Plague
^Indicates a spell which is automatically learned and prepared due to subclass