Bloodpact Warlock Default Path

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A hunter who bound a fiend’s power into blood and blade to stalk the things that prey on mortals. Pact Magic, a pact weapon and a hexing curse arrive at level 1, and warlock invocations stand in for the blood hunter’s rites, brands and arcana as they come online. Free maneuvers and a heavy-weapon style keep the martial core sharp.

Classic match

Blood Hunter (Order of the Profane Soul)

Domain

Arcane

Technique

Martial

Source

Possession

Source sub-choice

Possession: Pact (Fiend)

Granted by the sub-choice

Acquired Boon - Pact (level 1)

Points are the Aethyr points collected by each level and the total the path has spent by then. Features markedfree use a free pick from the technique or source and cost nothing.

Level	Points	Features
1	0 / 0	Pact Magic free Pact of the Blade free (A bound pact weapon stands in for Crimson Rite; Blood Hunter features need the Suffusion source.) Hexblade’s Curse free (A bonus-action curse on a foe stands in for Blood Maledict and its blood curses.) Fighting Style - Great Weapon Fighting free Combat Superiority free
2	0 / 20	Bodily Improvement - Expanded Perception free
3	20 / 40	Invocation - Improved Pact Weapon 20 AP (Using the pact weapon as a spellcasting focus mirrors Rite Focus.) Maneuver - Menacing Strike free
4	55 / 70	Great Weapon Master 35 AP Fighting Style - Interception free
5	75 / 100	Mage Slayer 20 AP
6	125 / 140	Eldritch Adept 30 AP Invocation - Maddening Hex 20 AP (Psychic harm around a cursed foe mirrors Brand of Castigation.) Maneuver - Trip Attack free
7	155 / 180	Invocation - Sign of Ill Omen free (A patron spell once per long rest from a pact slot mirrors Revealed Arcana.) Invocation - Eldritch Smite free (Pouring pact slots into weapon hits stands in for Mystic Frenzy’s spell-and-steel blend.) Tough 30 AP Bodily Improvement - Defiant Resolve free
8	215 / 220	Resilient 30 AP Maneuver - Precision Attack free Alert 30 AP
9	245 / 260	Durable 10 AP Invocation - Whispers of the Grave 20 AP (Speaking with the dead stands in for Grim Psychometry’s reading of dark secrets.) Fighting Style - Savage Striker free
10	290 / 310	Dark One’s Own Luck 30 AP (A fiendish boost to saves stands in for Dark Augmentation.) Maneuver - Goading Attack free Savage Attacker 15 AP
11	310 / 360	Invocation - Devil’s Sight 20 AP
12	370 / 410	Bodily Improvement - Immutable Resolve free Invocation - Eldritch Sight 20 AP Epic Boon of Fortitude 40 AP
13	435 / 460	Invocation - Relentless Hex free (Teleporting to the cursed foe stands in for Brand of Tethering.) Invocation - Lifedrinker free (Extra necrotic damage on pact-weapon hits echoes the blood rite’s added damage.) Maneuver - Riposte free Epic Boon of Magic Resistance 65 AP
14	470 / 520	Fiendish Resilience 35 AP (Patron-granted resistance stands in for Hardened Soul.)
15	570 / 580	Mystic Arcanum (6th level) 35 AP (A patron spell cast once without a slot mirrors Unsealed Arcana.) Sentinel 40 AP Maneuver - Dazing Strike free Invocation - Witch Sight 25 AP
16	570 / 650	Bodily Improvement - Hardened Skin free
17	665 / 720	Epic Boon of Irresistible Offense 95 AP
18	741 / 800	Boon of Truesight 70 AP Dark One’s Blessing 6 AP (Feeding on a felled foe’s life mirrors Blood Curse of the Soul Eater.) Maneuver - Sweeping Attack free
19	876 / 890	Epic Boon of Combat Prowess 75 AP Epic Boon of the Night Spirit 60 AP Bodily Improvement - Invigorated Recovery free
20	991 / 1000	Lucky 50 AP Epic Boon of Recovery 45 AP Invocation - Tomb of Levistus 20 AP