Does Pact of the Blade only use charisma?

You can use your pact weapon as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. 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 Pact of the Blade use Charisma and strength?

Description. Bind the one you are wielding as one, making it magical. Pact weapons use the wielder's Charisma modifier instead of Strength or Dexterity.
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Can a pact of the Blade Warlock use any weapon?

The first choice upon gaining Pact of the Blade is deciding the pact weapon's initial form. The warlock can manifest any melee weapon they desire, from daggers to greatswords.
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Does Pact of the Blade have to be melee?

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. A Level 5 Pact Weapon on a Warlock with a Level 5 Extra Attack from any other Melee Class can stack.
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Can Pact of the Blade use two handed weapons?

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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Can I use a greatsword as a Hexblade Warlock?

The answer is yes, you can turn a two-handed weapon (both melee and ranged) into your pact weapon with the Pact of the Blade feature, thus qualifying them for your Hex Warrior feature as well as your Great Weapon Master feat.
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Can your Hexblade be your pact weapon?

Your Hexblade Patron weapon is not your pact weapon. One of the examples they give for a patron is blackrazor, and that is certainly not the weapon in the hands of a level 1 hexblade warlock. I am a sentient weapon, not your plaything, foolish mortal!
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How does Pact of the Blade and Hexblade work?

This pairs well with the Hexblade Patron ability "Hex Warrior", which allows the Warlock to use their Charisma modifier for attack and damage with any one-handed weapon they invest power into, or with any pact weapon regardless of its properties.
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Is Pact of the Blade the same as Hexblade?

Pact of the Blade says "You can't affect an artifact or sentient weapon in this way" in regards to making a magic weapon your pact weapon. A Hexblade is a sentient magic weapon, as read in XGtE, "a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons..."
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Can Pact of the Blade use a bow?

RAW any pact of the blade can make a magic +1 or named bow their pact weapon, and then summon it from then on.
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Can Hexblade have 2 pact weapons?

A Warlock with Pact of the Blade can have one Pact Weapon active at a time.
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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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Can a Hexblade have two weapons?

So you can have two separate weapons: your pact weapon, plus your Hexblade-chosen weapon. Note that any invocations or whatever talking about your pact weapon refer only to the one that is chosen with Pact of the Blade, not the other weapon chosen with Hexblade.
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Does Hexblade use Charisma?

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that 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?

You can't use Green Flame Blade or Booming Blade with your pact weapon, as they now require a weapon worth at least 1sp, thus disqualifying any summoned weapon (except for magical weapons you have turned into your pact weapon), and since they have a listed cost, you can't use a focus in its' place.
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What weapon can Pact of the Blade be?

Pact of the Blade indeed allows you to create any melee weapon and be proficient in it.
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Can you be a Hexblade in bg3?

While players cannot create Hexblade Warlocks in Baldur's Gate 3, the Pact of the Blade subclass offers a similar experience, allowing Warlock players to focus on weapon proficiencies and create a unique pact weapon.
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Do Hexblades use Eldritch Blast?

You can sling Eldritch Blasts as much as any other Warlock even when you go Hexblade. It's not like the subclass forces you to go Pact of the Blade or be in melee.
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How many weapons can you have with Pact of the Blade?

It uses the wielder's Charisma modifier, and its damage is magical. You are Proficient with the weapon. You can only have one at a time.
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Does bind pact weapon use charisma?

Condition: Pact Weapon

The Warlock bound to this weapon is always Proficient with it. The weapon's damage is magical. The weapon uses the Warlock's Charisma modifier for Attack rolls and damage rolls.
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Which pact is best for Hexblade Warlock?

Only Blade Pact Warlocks actually need weapons, which generally means that only Hexblades should be using them. Your choice of weapon matters fairly little, and Pact of the Blade allows you to change your weapon easily (unless you've bound a magic weapon), so you can easily choose a weapon to suit the situation.
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Why is Pact of the Blade good for Hexblade?

"Pact of the Blade" is meant to allow an Hexblade Warlock to use any weapon: for example, you could use a longbow or crossbow as your pact weapon. Last edited by Maan; 2021-03-24 at 05:37 AM.
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Can a Hexblade use a whip?

The other thing you get from Hexblade is martial weapons which in terms of weapons that matter is whip, scimitar and heavy crossbow and if you want to use one of these you can do it with improved pact weapon anyway.
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Can a Hexblade cast with a shield?

If a Hexblade takes Pact of the Blade as their Pact Boon at L3, they become eligible for the Improved Pact Weapon invocation and can swap out one of the invocations selected at L2. From that point, they can keep their weapon and shield in hand at all times, using the weapon as a spellcasting focus.
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Can a Hexblade use a shield?

As others have pointed out the Hexblade gains proficiency in martial weapons, medium armor and shields. So, take the Hexblade as your patron and you're golden.
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