Talk:Fjord/@comment-87.58.226.131-20180118103036/@comment-74.74.136.190-20180119090143

Just because Reddit cries it's broken doesn't mean it's broken. Hexblades are fine; the only really bad things about them are that they're a sloppy patch-job for the inherently flawed Pact of the Blade and their flavor is really mediocre. Mathematically speaking, they still do less damage than Blastlocks unless they min-max super hard/multiclass, but even then it takes a LOT of effort to make a character whose damage output honestly isn't that much better or worse than that of a Barbarian or a Fighter.

Even if Hexblade was broken, Travis distributed his stats in a way that favors RP way more than combat. He put his 14 into INT instead of DEX and also dumped WIS, and as a result it's going to be super easy for anything higher than like CR5 to hit him or snag him with a nasty spell.

Let me put it like this: last campaign, Marisha played a Moon Druid, which if you ask pretty much anyone who has a lot of experience with 5E is basically completely busted and easily one of the most powerful classes in the game if not the most powerful, and was never nerfed. The chances of Travis, who IMO is playing a much weaker character mechanically speaking, being nerfed are pretty close to 0.