What can you summon with Pact of the Blade?

Pact of the Blade allows warlocks in Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition to summon mystical weapons, forging an arcane bond with a formidable armoury at their fingertips. This versatile pact boon unlocks new fighting styles for warlocks, turning them into empowered melee combatants or ranged weapon masters.
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Can you summon any weapon with Pact of the Blade?

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 chapter 5 for weapon options). You are proficient with it while you wield it. So, this cannot be any weapon.
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What weapons work with Pact of the Blade?

Improved pact weapon lets you summon long bows, short bows, light and heavy crossbows. It also makes your pact weapon +1 AND lets it be used as your spellcasting focus. However, ANY magic weapon including ranged ones can be bound as your pact weapon using the ritual and you don't need improved pact weapon to do so.
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How do you use pact of the Blade in D&D?

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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Does pact of the Blade work with Hexblade?

Pact of the Blade was never intended to work with the Hexblade patron weapon. Your patron is supposed to be "... almost godlike in their power", so it doesn't make sense it would give you the power to banish it to an extradimensional space.
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The Ultimate Guide to Warlocks in D&D 5e: Pacts and Eldritch Invocations

Can you Hexblade a greatsword?

Hex Warrior lets you use CHA for attacks with pact weapon regardless of the type. 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 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 you use a bow with Pact of the Blade?

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 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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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 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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Is Pact of the Blade the same as Hexblade?

No. Hexblades with Pact of the Blade have 2 things they can do: Hexblade Warrior allows you to select a weapon without the 2-handed property and use your charisma modifier instead of strength (or dex for a 1 handed ranged weapon or finesse weapon).
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Can you use booming Blade with a pact weapon?

Can you use Booming Blade on your conjured pact weapon received as your pact boon? The material component for Booming Blade is a weapon that's worth at least 1 sp. RAW: Yes.
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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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Can you turn Shadow Blade into a pact weapon?

The key things are that shadow blade never counts as a pact weapon or as a hex warrior weapon so you can never use charisma with it. This means the hexblade has to use strength or dexterity to attack with a shadow blade and not charisma.
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Can Hexblade use a staff?

If you are a Pact of the Blade warlock (with the Hexblade patron that seems an obvious choice) and you take the Improved Pact Weapon eldritch invocation, you could turn a staff into your pact weapon and then use it as a spellcasting focus via the eldritch invocation, which lets you get the staff's benefit on most ...
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What is the best weapon in Pact of the Blade?

Top Pact Weapon Choices
  • Greatsword: Heavy-hitting two-handed power. ...
  • Longbow: Allows ranged attacking when a superior option over spells.
  • Rapier: Light and finesse-based for high Dex builds. ...
  • Warhammer: Bludgeoning damage and versatile style. ...
  • Double Scimitar: Unique two-bladed sword enabling flashy attacks.
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Does a Hexblade count as a magic weapon?

Does the hex spell make a weapon's damage count as magical in D&D 5E? No, the Hex spell does not enchant a normal weapon to make it a magical weapon.
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Can my pact weapon be my hex weapon?

According to Crawford, rules as intended definitely allow a Pact Weapon and a weapon that you touch after a long rest to be Hex Weapons.
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Can a warlock pact weapon be a gun?

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. It's normal bullets deal 1d8 magical piercing, it doesn't need to reload and has infinite ammo.
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Does Pact of the Blade only use charisma?

Pact weapons use the wielder's Charisma modifier instead of Strength or Dexterity.
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Is Hexblade a subclass?

Hexblade is a subclass option for your warlock. From Xanathar's Guide to Everything (Wizards of the Coast): You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell—a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow.
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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 use a longbow?

Finally, the weapon you conjure can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow. Thirsting Blade - You can attack with your pact weapon twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
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Can Hexblades use crossbows?

You can use Hex Warrior (+Cha) with a ranged 2h weapon like a longbow or heavy crossbow if you have a magic one that you do the ritual over to make into your Pact Weapon, otherwise not without extra invocations.
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