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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5024092" data-attributes="member: 35909">Well, a Warlock also NEEDS Concentration.  So barring a high int, can't get many more skills after keeping UMD and Concentration.  And a warlock otherwise gets little benefit from int, so it's not really a good idea to put a very high score into that just ot be the party pokedex.  You're already an inadequate substitute for a wizard, why try and illustrate that further?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'd say grab those two, use the rest on spellcraft and maybe cross class on Tumble (it's that good), and just focus on making your warlock as a "unorthodox" archer or melee fighter.  If going the melee fighter route, you can retain a good amount of ranged options, so even then you'll be fighting largely skirmish-style.  Because you really can't fill a tank on a d6 HD.It's good, especially if you have teamwork benefits, then it opens up one of them to give the entire party half the feat's benefit if one party member actually has it.But the whole hitting allies if you don't take -4 is a houserule, probably not applicable ot the OP.  The RAW is that you MUST take -4, and you can never hit allies.  You have no option to get a higher chance to hit in exchange for endangering your friends.  The only way in RAW to hurt your allies with a ranged weapon is if firing into a grapple, which is actually one of those rare cases where a warlock can really find himself unable to do much.  Actual bow and arrow archers can get Seeking on their weapons or eventually have the BAB for Improved Precise Shot.  A warlock is mostly left unable to safely use EB, and must rely on his other invocations if an ally is grappling the enemy.  Depending on what invocations you chose, you may not have many options in that scenario, especially if you picked offensive invocations that particular enemy is immune to (like if it's an undead and your best offensive invocation was Charm).</blockquote>

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