Can you make a magic weapon a pact weapon?
Yes, you can transform a magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual, which takes 1 hour to complete and can be done during a short rest. This allows you to bond with the magic weapon, making it your pact weapon and enabling you to summon it and store it in an extra-dimensional space.
Understanding Pact of the Blade
The Pact of the Blade feature enables warlocks to create a pact weapon in their empty hand, and this pact weapon is magical in nature. When you create a pact weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier for attack and damage rolls. Additionally, the pact weapon overcomes magical resistance of creatures, making it a valuable asset in combat.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What types of weapons can be pact weapons?
Any melee weapon can be a pact weapon, including two-handed and versatile weapons. However, improvised weapons and staff magic items cannot be set as pact weapons.
2. Can I use Shadow Blade as my pact weapon?
No, Shadow Blade never counts as a pact weapon or a hex warrior weapon, so you cannot use Charisma with it.
3. Can my pact weapon be my Hexblade?
No, your Hexblade Patron weapon is not your pact weapon. The Hexblade patron is designed to work with the Pact of the Blade, making the warlock a better combatant.
4. Can a pact weapon be broken?
Yes, a pact 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.
5. Can I cast spells with my pact weapon?
Yes, you can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.
6. Does pact weapon work in antimagic field?
The pact weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. However, the properties and powers of magic items, including pact weapons, are suppressed in an antimagic field.
7. Can my pact weapon be a greatsword?
Yes, you can turn a greatsword into your pact weapon with the Pact of the Blade feature, which extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, including two-handed weapons.
8. Can a staff be a pact weapon?
No, staff magic items cannot be set as pact weapons. However, you can create a copy of a staff and change its item type to weapon-quarterstaff to work around this limitation.
9. Does magic weapon stack with a +1 weapon?
The Magic Weapon spell can still be cast on a +1 weapon to get the extra striking die, but the +1 does not stack with the Magic Weapon spell.
10. Can I dual wield pact weapons?
Technically, no, you cannot have two pact weapons. However, you can have one weapon as your Hexblade Weapon and a different weapon as your pact weapon.
11. Why is Pact of the Blade good for Hexblade?
The Pact of the Blade integrates the best feature of the Hexblade subclass, the ability to use CHA for attacks and damage with weapons.
12. Can improved pact weapon be a gun?
No, Improved Pact Weapon explicitly requires melee weapons, and only allows the 4 specific ranged weapons mentioned in the feature.
13. Can a pact weapon be a monk weapon?
A warlock pact weapon is still only a monk weapon if it meets the monk weapon criteria, which includes being a simple weapon without the two-handed or heavy trait.
14. Does improved pact weapon make it magical?
No, Improved Pact Weapon grants a +1 to attack and damage, but does not change anything else about the pact weapon, including its magical properties.
15. Can I use charisma for pact weapon?
Yes, when you attack with your *pact weapon