Vexing Daredevil


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The vexing daredevil archetype of the mesmerist has the following class feature:

Dazzling Feint (Su)

At 3rd level, each time a vexing daredevil successfully feints against a creature under the effect of her hypnotic stare, she also chooses one of her dazzling feint benefits to activate. Unless otherwise stated, a dazzling feint's benefit applies only on the vexing daredevil's next attack this round. She selects one dazzling feint at 3rd level and another every 4 levels thereafter. The DC for any saving throw against a dazzling feint's effect is equal to 10 + 1/2 the vexing daredevil's class level + her Charisma modifier. The vexing daredevil can't choose the same dazzling feint more than once.

It replaces bold stare.
My question is at third level do you learn one of the dazzling feint abilities and that's the only one you're able to use until you learn another one at level 7.
Or
does it mean that you learn all of the different dazzling feints at level 3 and you can choose to apply any one of them. Then at level 7 when you feint, you can apply two.

To me it reads like the first thing I listed. Having read a new optimization guide for the mesmerist, the author seems to take the second option.
If it IS the first, it seems like kind of a weak replacement for bold stare.


"At 3rd level, each time a vexing daredevil successfully feints against a creature under the effect of her hypnotic stare, she also chooses one of her dazzling feint benefits to activate. Unless otherwise stated, a dazzling feint's benefit applies only on the vexing daredevil's next attack this round. She selects one dazzling feint at 3rd level and another every 4 levels thereafter. The DC for any saving throw against a dazzling feint's effect is equal to 10 + 1/2 the vexing daredevil's class level + her Charisma modifier. The vexing daredevil can't choose the same dazzling feint more than once."

That means you learn a subset of the feints and apply one.

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