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By the way, I asked Mark Seifter about this in his thread, and he provided two additional reasons why Ascetic Style is banned in PFS:

1. It makes unarmed-exclusive options less special (argument against allowing something like the brawling enhancement to apply to a weapon while using Ascetic Style)

2. It has an unfair budget advantage over Amulet of Mighty Fists' users (argument against the featline in general).

To me, this sounds like "it's banned because monks should be punching things."

I think that nerfs are fine.

I just wish they would be pointed at some of the more obscure, but terrifyingly broken, spells, or even some of the "golden cow" spells, like similacrum or clone.

I really don't get why lore warden needed a nerf.

It was great at what it did, for sure.

But by definition, there will always be a best at something, and nerfing the best at an option that, while nice, doesn't work on a lot of things due to the existance of freedom of movements, monsters without weapons to disarm, and anything thst can fly, the tricks of the lore warden were only so effective.

They could still deal respectable damage, though, making them respectably versatile.

As a melee combatant.

But if the old archtype is banned, it makes that all go away- back to DPS only melee builds for fighters.

I can't wait for this to get FAQ'd as a no, it doesnt work, instantly negating a ton of interesting possible charecter designs.

I wonder if "that would Almost certianly not be what was intended, and therefore, Probobly no." Is an acceptable answer, instead of delving into the depths of raw and semantics.

Probobly not.