Eyes of the Vestige for a non-Warlock

[Shin Okada]

The power says,

Hit: 1d6 + Constitution modifier psychic damage. Choose the target or a creature within 3 squares of the target and within the target's line of sight. You place your Warlock's Curse on that creature; if the creature is already cursed by you, you can deal your Warlock's Curse extra damage to that creature instead of to the target.

Well, assuming a PC is not actually a Warlock and gaining this power via Half-Elf's Dilettante or multi-classing.

Can he actually curse opponent with this power and gain damage bonus until the end of encounter?
Or does he need to be a Warlock as it says "your Warlock's Curse"?

What if a PC has a limited use of Warlock's Curse via Student of Malediction feat?

Were there any official clarification for it?

 

[kaomera]

(I'm slow typing this, so I assume I'll be ninja'd, but... No, apparently I won't.)

I'm reading that you can place the curse, but without the actual 'Warlock's Curse' class feature you don't actually deal any additional damage. You can still gain other benefits (from feats, frex) of attacking a cursed target, but Eyes doesn't specify any extra damage, that's part of the class feature.

'Student of Malediction' lets you use 'Warlock's Curse' once per encounter and ends that curse when you apply the extra damage. IMO that should mean that you can use each part of the class feature (placing a curse and dealing damage) once. Normally you would have to place the curse with the feature before you dealt the damage, but this seems like a way around that.

 

[Nifft]

I've been wondering about this too.

I think that requiring (and using the limited version provided by) Student of Malediction would be reasonably balanced.

Cheers, -- N