Stacking Improved, Superior, and Ultimate Pact Blade Weapon

Question

This Unearthed Arcana article lists several new invocations, one of which has been slightly modified and published in Xanathar's Guide To Everything, page 57.

Improved Pact Weapon (XGtE) states:

You can use any weapon you summon with your Pact of the Blade feature as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. In addition, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, unless it is a magic weapon that already has a bonus to those rolls. Finally, the weapon you conjure can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.

"Original", UA version of Improved Pact Weapon states:

Any weapon you create using your Pact of the Blade feature is a +1 weapon. This invocation doesn’t affect a magic weapon you transformed into your pact weapon.

Superior Pact Weapon (UA only) states:

Any weapon you create using your Pact of the Blade feature is a +2 weapon. This invocation doesn’t affect a magic weapon you transformed into your pact weapon.

Ultimate Pact Weapon (UA only) states:

Any weapon you create using your Pact of the Blade feature is a +3 weapon. This invocation doesn’t affect a magic weapon you transformed into your pact weapon.

If you selected more than one of these Eldritch Invocations, such as Ultimate + Superior, would the bonuses stack resulting in a +5 pact weapon?

Answer 1

The way it is written in UA, NO.

Note the use of is, instead of something like gains a +2 bonus

Any weapon you create using your Pact of the Blade feature is a +2 weapon. This invocation doesn’t affect a magic weapon you transformed into your pact weapon.

This is similar to the writing in Armors, in which your AC is something, and stacking armors (somehow) wouldn't stack bonuses.

The way it is written in XGtE, probably NO.

For the XGtE,

In addition, the weapon gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls

which would stack with another effect that said something on the lines of

In addition, the weapon gains a +2 bonus to its attack and damage rolls

except that it is explicitly states

unless it is a magic weapon that already has a bonus to those rolls.

and Pact Blade counts as a magical weapon (at least for resistances against non-magic weapons), as stated

You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it. You are proficient with it while you wield it. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming Resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

While not explicitly stated that it counts as a magical weapon for the purpose of the bonus, it seems it is intended to not stack.

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_{Note that the UA usually is not balanced (the point of it is to playtest and balance) and you should take care with using this content. From my experience, the writting was also not refined by then, as can be seen in the difference between the actual release and the UA version. You could suppose the intended purpose of what was written on UA is what is written on the official release, but that would not be RAW.}