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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgard" data-source="post: 3753137" data-attributes="member: 4157">Found your answer in the latest FAQ:Does a warlock’s hideous blow invocation (CompleteArcane, page 134) require one standard action to use thehideous blow and another round to strike with a meleeweapon, or can the hideous blow and the melee weaponattack be done as a single standard action?Making an attack with hideous blow is considered part ofthe same standard action as using the hideous blow invocation(much like the casting of a touch spell allows an attack to bemade as part of the spell’s casting).Does hideous blow provoke an attack of opportunity?Yes. As a spell-like ability, using hideous blow provokesattacks of opportunity just as any other spell-like ability would.A warlock who relies on this invocation should considerinvesting ranks in the Concentration skill so that he can use itdefensively.Note that the act of using the invocation, not the act ofmaking the attack, draws the attack of opportunity, since thewarlock delivering hideous blow is considered “armed” (justlike a spellcaster delivering a touch spell).</blockquote>