Can you use a bow with Pact of the Blade?

Pact of the Blade Tips & Notes This can only be used on any melee weapon.
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Does pact of the Blade work for ranged weapons?

When you cast bind weapon it applies Pact blade to all weapons equipped, including the off-hand weapon and ranged weapons.
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What weapons can you use for Pact of the Blade?

Simple weapons like clubs and handaxes offer straightforward attacking. Martial weapons like rapiers and mauls provide more damage but some require certain proficiencies. A warlock proficient with martial weapons unlocks more potent options.
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Can you use two handed weapons with Pact of the Blade?

If you pick a two handed weapon to be your pact weapon like a glaive or a halberd, you can stack Polearm Master on top of Great Weapon Master for top tier damage and get constant advantage from devils sight/darkness early on or shadow of moil later.
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Do you need arrows for a pact weapon?

Weapons you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature no longer require ammunition and ignore the Loading property. If a weapon has the Reload property, you must use 1 action or 1 attack to fill the weapon with ammo.
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Can you make a bow your pact weapon?

You can bind whatever weapon you want to your character and they will be able to wield it. However, you will not be able to throw whichever weapon is bound to your character because of the Pact of the Blade. This can only be used on any melee weapon.
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Can your pact weapon be a gun?

Pact Handgun: You can use your action to summon a pact weapon in your empty hand. Your pact weapons can be used as your casting focus, so you do not need a free hand to cast spells. It is initially a small handgun designed in a fashion akin to your patron.
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Can Pact of the Blade summon a greatsword?

Yes, you can turn a greatsword into your pact weapon with the Pact of the Blade feature as the benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon's type, which can include two-handed weapons.
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Can Pact of the Blade change a magic weapon?

You can also use Pact of the Blade to bond with a magic weapon, turning it into your pact weapon. This magic weapon doesn't have to be a melee weapon, so you could use the feature on a +1 longbow, for instance.
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Does Pact of the Blade use strength?

Pact weapons use the wielder's Charisma modifier instead of Strength or Dexterity.
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Do I need pact of the Blade for Hexblade?

Also keep in mind that Hex Warrior doesn't allow your touched weapon to have the Two-Handed property, so if you want to use a two-handed weapon you'll definitely need Pact of the Blade. Versatile weapons still work, though, and the difference between a longsword and a greatsword isn't huge.
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Can you use Charisma for Pact of the Blade?

When you attack with your pact weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls.
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Does green flame Blade work with pact of the Blade?

Blade Pact Weapon

If you adapt a magic weapon into your pact weapon, it should also have sufficient value to qualify. D&D Principal Rules Designer Jeremy Crawford confirms: Green-Flame Blade continues to work with Pact of the Blade. Booming Blade continues to work with Pact of the Blade.
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Is Hexblade melee or ranged?

In most cases the Hexblade Patron warlock can take any of the Pacts (Tome, Chain, Blade) and still be a melee Hexblade warlock. To be Ranged, you have to take Pact of the Blade, and the Improved Pact weapon Invocation, in order to make the full use of the abilities of the Hexblade in ranged combat.
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Does Antimagic field affect pact of the Blade?

[The pact weapon] counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. Thus, the weapon will have an interaction with antimagic field as is described in the spell effect: The properties and powers of magic items are suppressed in the sphere.
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How does pact of the Blade worm?

In D&D 5e the ability "Pact of the Blade" can be obtained at level 3 by the Warlock class. It allows them to, as an action, create a magic weapon in any form they desire. They are automatically considered proficient with the weapon, and it will vanish if they are more than 5ft away from it for any longer than 1 minute.
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How many weapons can you have in the pact of the Blade?

A Warlock with Pact of the Blade can have one Pact Weapon active at a time.
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Can a hexblade have more than one pact weapon?

You only get one active Pact Weapon at a time. But, it's up to your DM in the end. Technically, yes. Both use charisma modifier for attacks, as hex warrior says: 'If you later take the pact of the blade, then this extends to every weapon you summon'.
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Is Pact of the Blade a spellcasting focus?

You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. In addition, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is a magic weapon that already has a bonus to those rolls.
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What does Pact of the Blade give you in BG3?

The Pact of the Blade gives you an edge, allowing you to summon a pact weapon of your choice. The pact weapon must be a melee weapon. It cannot be thrown.
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What is the Hexblade patron?

From what I have gathered from the subclass, the Hexblade Patron is typically a powerful entity connected to the Shadowfell, an entity who can manifest their shadowy powers into weapons and gift their pact holders with the ability to cast shadowy hexes that leave targets vulnerable to their attacks.
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What is the pact of the Blade magical weapon?

You transform the magic weapon into your pact weapon, so your pact weapon IS the magic weapon. When you summon something else: You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it (see the Weapons section for weapon options).
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Can I throw my pact weapon in 5e?

Its damage becomes magical, you cannot drop or throw it, and you become Proficient with it if you weren't already. You can only have 1 pact weapon at any time.
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Can a pact weapon be broken?

The weapon ceases being your pact weapon if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. Breaking is not a disqualifier.
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Does Pact of the Blade use charisma?

Blade of the Frontier build plan. Finally, we have confirmation that Pact of the Blade will enable charisma-based weapon scaling, a mechanic that in tabletop was reserved for the Hexblade subclass that isn't present in BG3.
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