I use back-stab all the time. My mage-thief uses stoneskin, strength, improved invisibility and other defensive spells before using her sword to back-stab. Even without enhancing her strength of 8 she managed 100 against a poor kobold commando. Overkill I know but such good fun. I use this ability mainly against other mages before they can cast stoneskin etc.
I noticed that on the beta bug fix it mentions a barbarian/ mage dual class which I didn't think was possible. If it is it sounds fun, as the eccentricity of contrasting a barbarian's personality with a studious mage could be intriguing.
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