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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yellowparis" data-source="post: 5173612" data-attributes="member: 47358">Spectacular ... it looks like WotC's board changes ate the relevant bit, but it has been said.  Check this thread, though: <a href="http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19520666/Warlock_Faq_by_Rich_Baker" target="_blank">link</a>.And search for 'hideous blow'.  That thread summarizes what the actual FAQ thread once said.  Feel free to go hunting the net for an archive of the original thread, but I don't have the energy.What FAQ are you looking at?I find that warlock is, amazingly, not a traditional melee class, so comparing it's damage output to a ranger or somesuch is a little odd.  (c:  Mind you, I've played a melee warlock, and had great fun doing it (it was a warlock/monk/rogue build aiming at building something that felt like a real kung-fu comic martial artist, rather than the freaky box-of-oddments D&D monk).But the strength of a warlock (melee or ranged) isn't damage ... it's the endless, no-spell-slot supply of debilitating status effects.  When I punched someone with my 'monk', the damage was a nice side effect to the nauseated or whatever.  Often, I'd pass on the eldritch blast damage altogether, in favor of touch attack invocations (blindness via bestow curse, say, or stripping off a heavily-buffed enemy's spells).Warlocks are really nice for that approach ... lots of mobility powers, and lots of standard action, touch-range effects that really screw an enemy.  If you want to go for a melee-lock, I suggest focusing on skirmishing tactics: go invisible, move up on an enemy, hit them with a horribly disabling status effect (plus some damage, of course), then let the beat-sticks clean up.Still, matter of opinion, I suppose.  My main issue with eldritch glaive is that it lets you hammer your rider effects home really easily.  Every attack you make provokes a save vs. [whatever].  The fighter isn't doing that with his full attacks.</blockquote>

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