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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4788996" data-attributes="member: 35909">Keep in mind that darkness is actually more like dim lighting.  Creatures can still generally see in it, you just have concealment to them (which allows hiding and sneak attacking, yes) and them to you (which would normally mean no SA, but the devil's sight invocation takes care of that).Far as build, do a few warlock levels and the rest in rogue or scout if your party needs a rogue so much.  Ask the DM to let you use the Practiced Spellcaster feat for Warlock, so you can get a better eldritch blast.As for Hideous Blow...it's an awful invocation.  It only allows one attack per round, and iirc, using it requires a concentration check or else aoo/lose the usage, like a normal spell casting.I think it's called Eldritch Glaive, in one of the splatbooks.  That invocation basically just turns your EB into a spear-like weapon you can full attack with (doing base weapon damage equal to your EB damage), instead of just tacking it on to a regular weapon attack like Hideous Blow.  Note, if you crit with HB, only the weapon's damage would multiply, since the EB is added dice damage.  With the invocation I'm talking about, a crit would double the EB damage, as that IS the base weapon, just as would happen if you were using it in the normal ray form.</blockquote>