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There are a couple of different ways you can build a Gish, or a Spellblade, or a Hexblade, whatever you want to call it, which I will go over later.  There are two main distinctions between Gish builds, whether you want to do damage, or whether you want to be useful.  Not that doing damage isn't useful, but you get the idea.  The distinction between damage and utility is important, because different builds will focus on different aspects of a Spellblade's kit, considering things like Eldritch Strike, Shield, or Defensive Flourish as possible options.  Whichever roll you want your Gish to fill, you will need to know ahead of time, and prepare for.  Obviously, you can have a Gish that does both, but not ''all'' Gish will be able to do both, if that makes sense.
There are a couple of different ways you can build a Gish, or a Spellblade, or a Hexblade, whatever you want to call it, which I will go over later.  There are two main distinctions between Gish builds, whether you want to do damage, or whether you want to be useful.  Not that doing damage isn't useful, but you get the idea.  The distinction between damage and utility is important, because different builds will focus on different aspects of a Spellblade's kit, considering things like Eldritch Strike, Shield, or Defensive Flourish as possible options.  Whichever roll you want your Gish to fill, you will need to know ahead of time, and prepare for.  Obviously, you can have a Gish that does both, but not ''all'' Gish will be able to do both, if that makes sense.


As a note, for strength builds in particular, Spellblades can benefit from items like Elixir of Cloud Giant Strength especially well, given that they will be dependent on multiple ability scores to be maximally effective.  This will allow you to commit fully to your spellcasting modifier while still having better-than-usual hit rates with your melee attacks.
Likewise, I'm not going to include every Gish build I can think of, because there are a lot of bad one's.  This will hopefully be a list of builds that I think are actually worth trying, and not just a list of every striker class with spell slots (looking at you, Ranger).


As a further addendum to that, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on builds that largely just use synergistic items to create a Spellblade character.  The items exist, use them if you'd like.  Instead, I want to focus on character builds that do interesting things, with items as an extra bonus.  I will mention things like Eldritch Knight when it provides an interesting use case, but there are a lot of Gish builds that don't have any real advantage over any other build, so I won't mention them.
As a further addendum to that, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on builds that largely just use synergistic items to create a Spellblade character.  The items exist, use them if you'd like.  Instead, I want to focus on character builds that do interesting things, with items as an extra bonus.  I will mention things like Eldritch Knight when it provides an interesting use case, but there are a lot of Gish builds that don't have any real advantage over any other build, so I won't mention them.
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