This is a fun build i made for honor mode. You can realisticly pick any race. i liked drow for superior darkvison and perception. But the best race overall probably would be orc.
Once reaching level 12 you should follow the level ups in order.
When begining the game it’s beneficial to just level up warlock first all the way to level 4 or even 5 for deepend pact extra attack temporarily then respec and follow order once level 6 or level 8. You also could more efficently do the reverse and pick all fighter as well with one dip in warlock also. Its your chocie. This build can work for non honor mode. if so take warlock to level 5 and eldritch knight for the rest due to the way deepend pact works is different. Keep in mind you will lose out on a feat if doing it this way.
There are many ways to play this build. The one here involves using pact bound phalar aluve to benefit from 22 charisma. Use drakethroat glave to add extra thunder damage to the weapon and cast shriek. Because of the ring of spiteful thunder, boots of stormy clamor and gloves of belligerent skies we should be inflicting reverberation alot to knock enemies prone when we hit them while inflicting good damage.
Enemies that somehow don’t go prone will br debuffed enough so if they hit you the thunderskin cape should retaliate reverberation to knock them prone and skip the rest of ther enemies turn. Assuming the enemy is next to you and they try to run away to attack another Sentinel will ensure we attack and provide we don’t miss we should knock them prone also.
We also benefit from mortal reminder so landing crits will cause enemies to be frightened. With the ring of arcane synergy our cantrips will do good damage since we are eldritch knight we benift from war caster passive which let’s us attack with a bonus action after using a cantrip. Allowing us to make powerful ranged attacks and melee. We can support with other spells and guarantee finishing off low health enemies with magic missiles. You could use anything for the necklace slot but I felt like the fey amulet would be good to help the build against saves especially against wisdom saves at 10 wisdom. Rings can also be changed depending what you are going for. Ring if arcane synergy is very good for cantrip dmg. If planning to stay in darkness using the oversight ring for blind immunity is very powerful to abuse darkness. Which this character is very good at. If you didn’t pick drow for superior darkvison you can always pick warlock buff to see in darkness.
Kethrics armor and shield work well with this build and are thematic but you can substitute them for any other type. The build as shown is very good for a party face with decent perception insight persuasion and history etc.
There are many alternatives to running equipment with this build. For your eldritch knight spells. They use INT for spellcasting modifier which is why I run the intellect headgear. However you could forgo that and only pick support spells that don’t really require spellcasing ability to be effective like grease. You could then wear birthright headgear which gives plus 2 to charisma buffing it from 22 to 24 which will make your warlock eldritch blasts more effective dmg as well as warlock binded weapon.
Since we benifit from mortal reminder you could also make this a crit fishing build with items that reduce ctit by 1. Covert cowel. Deadshot l, shade slayer cloak. Knife of the under mountain king and primary or take duel wielder. You could also wear the dare devil gloves to treat eldritch blasts as melee attacks. Or use the craterfish gloves to increase dmg.
You could even use two handers with this build because warlock bound allows you to be proficient with anything you pick up and use your charisma for rolls.
The only issue with this build is it requires you the be high level to make everything work making early game just pure warlock or fighter for efficiency. However if planing to be evil you could try to kill mostly everyone in act 1 while keeping certain people alive. Doing this makes it possible to reach level 8 or 9 in act 1 using certain methods. You could also make this a dark urge background as well.
