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<blockquote data-quote="Derro" data-source="post: 4165632" data-attributes="member: 51010">I believe you are mistaken. Hideous blow is a standard action that takes the form of an attack. A hit channels the attacker's eldritch blast against the target in addition to weapon damage. No mention of AoO. The confusion here likely arises because Invocations generally provoke AoOs in which case you would be right. The hideous blow is an exception to this. Read the first couple of lines.The key is that the action being made is an attack. The eldritch blast is a triggered effect of the attack not an action itself. It is akin to having a perpetually charged touch spell. Though ultimately unclear the intent is apparent. It would be the pinnacle of bad design to make an explicitly melee power of this low magnitude provoke an AoO.In my initial post my statement about hideous blowing through a bow is obviously in error as hideous blow explicitly states melee attacks only. I was more suggesting a bend to the rules to uphold the concept (being able to use HB through a bow but being unable to channel it as a ray otherwise was what I intended).&nbsp; One other downside to the warlock build is spell failure. I had forgotten that even the eldritch blast is subject to this. Is there an armored casting feat or is that ability exclusively class based? I can't recall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derro, post: 4165632, member: 51010"] I believe you are mistaken. Hideous blow is a standard action that takes the form of an attack. A hit channels the attacker's eldritch blast against the target in addition to weapon damage. No mention of AoO. The confusion here likely arises because Invocations generally provoke AoOs in which case you would be right. The hideous blow is an exception to this. Read the first couple of lines. The key is that the action being made is an attack. The eldritch blast is a triggered effect of the attack not an action itself. It is akin to having a perpetually charged touch spell. Though ultimately unclear the intent is apparent. It would be the pinnacle of bad design to make an explicitly melee power of this low magnitude provoke an AoO. In my initial post my statement about hideous blowing through a bow is obviously in error as hideous blow explicitly states melee attacks only. I was more suggesting a bend to the rules to uphold the concept (being able to use HB through a bow but being unable to channel it as a ray otherwise was what I intended). One other downside to the warlock build is spell failure. I had forgotten that even the eldritch blast is subject to this. Is there an armored casting feat or is that ability exclusively class based? I can't recall. [/QUOTE]

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