CampinCarl9127 |
Break curse instead of suggestion? Yes please.
Holy vibration is less combat heavy than inspire greatness, but I personally think the flavor is incredible and it's pretty versatile.
Mass break curse is less useful than mass suggestion, but at lv 18 there aren't a lot of problems that can be solved with suggestion.
I believe pure heart is strictly better than well versed. More common saves.
Silver mastery is not as good as versatile performance (unless you're in a werewolf hunting campaign), but it's certainly not awful and at least it only replaces the 2nd level of it.
My vote is about an 8 out of 10, I would definitely take this archetype, especially if we didn't have a cleric in the party.
CN_Minus |
I have been looking at this for PFS recently, as you only go to level 12. You don't lose anything important (like most archetypes do, giving up inspire courage) and gain some flavorful and relatively good benefits.
It's not a bad archetype at all. Having seen it played it's very easy to roleplay a fun, good character.
Hmm |
When judging an archetype, you have to look at two things: what you get vs. what you give up.
This archetype retains the things that most parties want from their bards: inspire courage and bardic knowledge. Yes, you'll be getting your first versatile performance at 6th, so you won't get that early skill boost, but all the good stuff from the core bard seems to be there.
It has nice flavor and some useful abilities. I'd give this archetype a thumbs up!
Hmm