can a warlock cast elemental weapon on their pact weapon, or does it count as magical so they cannot? I’d allow it – Jeremy would know rules as written answer
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 26, 2017
can a warlock cast elemental weapon on their pact weapon, or does it count as magical so they cannot? I’d allow it – Jeremy would know rules as written answer
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 26, 2017
This one is easy. The rules for Pact Weapons include the following line:
“This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.”
A weapon doesn’t need to -count- as magical unless it -isn’t- magical. Ergo, a Pact Weapon is intrinsically a nonmagical weapon. (With the exception being if you convert an already magical weapon into a Pact Weapon)
Since we are told over and over that if something is meant to be in the rules, the rules will say so, we know that a Pact Weapon -only- counts as magical “for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage”.
It doesn’t count as magical for any other purpose – if it did, the rules would say so.