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And don't forget Storm Pillar doesn't require an attack roll. You've got the INT in any case, but you don't really need much of it.

Just moved from one point in the country to another- but i will continue to update this guide. Expect to see Tactics and Paragon Powers tomorrow.

As for a few other things...

a) I moved Half Elf up a step to blue, although i personally feel that its a Race that you need to take extremely specific stats and powers for it to do so- namely you need to grab Artificer at-wills and push your Charisma to a 15 to make it at all worth while. Storm Pillar, as has been pointed out, is an acceptable control option- but when you compare the standard action you took to cast it to the power of any other races Encounter Power- i ask you to evaluate if that was a good move.

b) Ugar is not a blue power, it is not a black power. It is a power that does low damage on an AOE, harms your friends, and gives an unstable buff to an excellent spell. It doesn't move unless you kill something, its easy to get away from, and its control is situational. All these things are the very definition of a Purple or Red power. Feel free to take it and love it, thats one of the best things about DND, you are free to make your own choices.

c) God Fragment- i understand people may question me on this one, but let me explain my experiences with it. I am currently playing a Revenant Vestige Warlock- the necrotic damage works with many of my other abilities and while its damage is potentially low- i have also rolled titanically huge numbers on the d12's, combined with the multiple d6's of curse to do a fantastic amount of pain to a target. Necrotic Resistance does exist, but if you aren't fighting undead regularly you'd be surprised how little it comes up.

The aura is short range- fortunately as a Constitution based character it is not lethal for you to get that close- especially when chasing +3 Point Blank Shots (Thanks Zutwa!) also it only takes a little planning to charge in after activating the aura and other control powers to lock down the accuracy of an enemy to -6 (if you have Psychic Lock and Illmeth going) + another -2 if someone else marked them- and keeping their saves low. Especially if you consider that you can swap places to get into/out of range of using the aura on enemies (once again assuming you have Illmeth going). Later on you can consider the power an extra +2 AC against melee attacks- which is a power i would gladly take.

As a Revenant who has also taken some of the other "Die Hard" Feats- the +3 bonus to death saves is amazing. The healing when spending an action point is part of my "I don't go down" trick- since you aren't unconscious you can spend the action point- heal and then take two standards when enemies expected you to be lying face down. As for opening the fight with an action point- that is a play style that i dont follow (mostly because my GM is tricky and rarely gives us a straightforward "What you see is what your fighting" kind of encounter) but if you have the opportunity to do so i can see why you might see the feature as less useful.

Also Dormant Power continues to grow on me - extra damage is never a bad thing - as my Fighter friend noted to me recently "Huh, you basically have a Vicious Weapon built into that rod." which is pretty solid considering that the main complaint about Warlocks has always been the low base damage.

As always i welcome criticism and discussion and if i agree with you will gladly change parts of the guide- thanks for reading.