Eldritch Blast in Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons
The accurate force beam Invoke put on the public grimoire
The official Warlock site describes Eldritch Blast in one sentence: fire an accurate long-range beam of force to quickly destroy or damage objects and enemies. That is the whole tooltip. It is listed among the partial grimoire with Witch Bolt, Gust of Wind, Levitate, Fey Switch, Black Tentacles, Misty Step, Tasha’s Leash, a long jump, and the Downpour ritual. Invoke says more of Kaatri’s magic will appear later. This page is the beam, not the handbook.
Video-game job, not a 5e slot
Tabletop readers arrive expecting agonizing blasts, repelling blasts, and a short rest. Invoke’s public model is different: cantrips stay on the pad, advanced spells take a slower commit, rituals spend components. Eldritch Blast sits in the always-available layer in coverage. Xbox Wire used it as the obvious alternative when telekinesis was doing crowd work — blast the pack instead of throwing furniture. That is a job description: delete a thing at range without walking into it.
Do not paste damage dice. Do not rank it S-tier. Do not add invocations Invoke has not named. If a later trailer shows the beam chaining, splitting, or pushing, that verb gets a sentence here. Until then, “accurate long-range force” is the legal text.
How it sits next to other tools
Witch Bolt wants water and metal. Downpour makes a courtyard conductive. Eldritch Blast does not need weather. That is why the combo page treats blast as the cheap opener and Witch Bolt as the rain payoff. Black Tentacles pin. Tasha’s Leash steals the sword. Fey Switch is the panic button. Eldritch Blast is the sentence you can say twice in a fight without opening a menu. How to use spells is the tutorial for that layering. Cantrips vs advanced is the taxonomy.
Xbox Wire also imagined Eldritch Blast as a substitute for scenery throws. That is the palette pitch: same problem, different brush. Mysteries and exploration will ask whether you blast a lock, levitate a bar, or walk around. Guay told IGN the game wants you to break problems with spells you may already know from the table, in real time.
What this page refuses
No DPS sheet. No “best Eldritch Blast build.” Builds on this wiki are Pact of the Blade thinking plus spell loadouts, not numeric ranks. Talismans that “synergize with favorite spells” were mentioned by Hattem without a named Eldritch Blast charm. When one exists, it belongs on builds with a source.
Watch the eight minutes on how to play. Use the combo planner to sketch blast-then-steel without inventing cooldowns. Read combat for Watchers and ogres — blast tags, steel finishes.
How to watch for it in the next trailer
When Invoke drops a Fall 2026 clip, pause on every bright line that is not lightning. Lightning is Witch Bolt. A pale force line that breaks a crate, a lock, or a distant archer is this page’s job. If the beam forks, write “forks” here with a source. If it only ever hits one body, leave the tooltip as “accurate.” If a talisman named for Eldritch Blast appears in a menu, it belongs on builds with the clip date, not as a guessed prefix from Tasha’s Cauldron. Kaatri is still a weapons master; a fight that is only beams is not the Gamescom thesis. Tag with the blast, then close with steel or a stolen sword from Tasha’s Leash. Skev may comment; he is not the caster.
Related: spells hub, Raw Magic, controls, Tasha.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers drawn from official Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons reveals and studio interviews.
Is Eldritch Blast a cantrip in Warlock the video game?
Coverage groups it with always-available pad tools. Invoke has not published a 5e-style slot table.
Does it chain like some tabletop invocations?
The official site says an accurate long-range force beam. Chaining is not in that sentence. Wait for a named variant.
Can it break objects?
Yes. Official copy says destroy or damage objects and enemies.
Is this the only blast?
It is the named force beam. Witch Bolt is lightning. Do not merge them.