#and then I'll have a slot to make a warlock that I'll never play

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WIPs? On a Friday? It's more likely than you think

Tagged by @demandthedoodles, thanks hon! My WIPs are hell right now, so I’m stealing your list idea for mine. I have SO MANY THOUGHTS and not nearly enough time or energy to work on them all. So here’s what I’ve got cooking right now:

FIRST, I got some tags recently that I need to respond to 💖 two music ones and a picrew. I also have five OC question asks that I need to finish up :3

Destiny mini fics and drabbles (sorry, idk what Dragon Age is right now):

Lyra gets a new shell

Hair trimming

[ CLOSE ]: while standing remarkably close to one another, the sender is unable to stop themselves from running their gaze across the receiver’s body, lingering for a moment on their lips, before returning to initiate prolonged, intense eye contact. - Mae tests Crow’s melee combat

Pouka Pond - Mae winds down in the pouka pond and takes a call from Crow

Resting one’s head on the other’s shoulder - Season of the Haunted, after Crow's successful severance ritual :)

HELM fun times >:3

uhhhhhh some non-canon Petra/Cayde/Mae stuff. maybe. possibly 👀

Season of the Hunt drinks

Misraaks being a cool dad

The Nightmare of Phaeston-4

If anyone's interested in more info on any of these, feel free to send an ask so I can infodump elaborate 💖

Tagging for a lil WIP Whenever action (with no pressure!): @greypetrel | @melisusthewee | @zenstrike | @cleverblackcat | @whimsyswastry | @jentrevellan | @commander-krios

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I'm one of those people who nearly never use Wyll even though my last run (where I've romanced Astarion) made me realize that my Durge's story would be so perfect with Wyll. I really wish to make it a reality so I'm reaching out to you and other people reading this - please help me! Tell me, how am I supposed to properly use a warlock! Every time I try Wyll just doesn't do much damage. I play on easy, I'm not good at combat and trust me I won't get better (I over 30 lol). It's my first D&D game. Since I play on easy I can't multiclass. My Durge is a paladin.

I really want Wyll in my party, I want to hear more of his banter, I want to fight Gortash side by side with him... but I also don't want to repeat every fight six times. In my first playthrough I've finally started to use Wyll more in act 3 and it was such a delight but I was only able to do it because Lae'zel and Gale were killing everything on their own at this point and my (rogue)Tav and third companion vere basically just standing there and cheering for them. I'm not joking.

Ok that was long, thank you for reading all of it. I'll be very grateful for any suggestions. Also ppl consider signing the petition and telling Larian to finally take proper care of the Prince Charming :)

Honestly I'm not the best person to ask because my game is modded to shit so I don't really have to worry about properly building my characters anymore. You could consider modding, if you're on PC!

Also, you can bump up your difficulty to normal (or whichever lets you multiclass), multiclass, then bump it down immediately. That lets you keep your other class on easy difficulty. (Unless they patched it out? But I don't think so.) People mostly go padlock for Wyll (paladin/warlock) since that gives him a bit more survivability and good melee options as well.

Personally I tend to give Wyll the Agonizing Blast and Repelling Blast invocations when those come up, and usually give him Cloud of Daggers for early game AoE. Repelling Blast lets you yeet enemies into spells or other damaging areas (off of cliffs, into fire etc). Wyll is introduced using a blade, but he's not actually tanky enough not to get blown to smithereens when in melee (at least not when I play him). I also use Arms of Hadar to make Wyll a sort of bomb when there's a lot of smaller enemies, basically have him run into the fray, set off Arms of Hadar, and watch everything die. It's risky, but that's why you do it to weaker mobs (or when he's surrounded). I mainly use Wyll for huge AoE spells that Gale or my bard can't waste big spell slots on, because warlocks get theirs back on a short rest and always cast at maximum level, so you always get a bang for your buck, and then Eldritch Blasts for when the others run out of stuff and/or some asshole just won't die.

But yeah, mostly I just spam Eldritch Blasts, as it's a cantrip and doesn't use spell slots or require rests. It's basically like a magical shotgun, and you get more charges when you level up.

Anyone else who's more of a pro at warlocks, please chime in!