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Liberty's Edge

She's actually pretty crappy as far as ranged support characters go for pure damage :S.

If you can rebuild her at all I would certainly up her Strength a little, at least 14, 16 would be ideal, otherwise she definitely struggles to do reasonable damage.

Definitely like the idea of FE: Giant, but she could steal the limelight a little bit!

Liberty's Edge

Never posted on these forums before but feel I have to weigh in because of how attached I am to the old BardBarian.

Unfortunately I feel like this class is still far inferior in performing the duty of a BardBarian / Skald to a mix of Barb 1 / Bard 19.

Given that Pathfinder removed the requirement to concentrate in order to maintain bardic music, Barbarian / Bard multiclass is not only viable but incredibly fun to play. You get insane skillpoints, enough of a bonus to strength to contribute and partially offset your 3/4 BAB from Bard, and full bard songs and spells minus one level. You also get Barbarian speed for an extra bonus.

I feel like the Skald needs to offer more to a party than a full BAB character who can marginally increase the damage of other players while REDUCING their AC, and acting as a healing sponge due to his lower than barb hit points, lack of rage temporary HP and abilities that penalize his and his allies AC.

By contrast a Barbarian / Bard would be able to offer almost full bard songs to a party, a substantially greater increase in damage (due to bonuses to both hit and damage), can sing while raging and swinging at people with power attack on and can cast a whole bunch of spells while not raging.

TLDR:
I feel if the Skald is trying to replace the Barbarian role, he's not tough enough and his benefits to his allies aren't meaty enough.

If he's trying to fill the role of the Bard, the bard is an infinitely better 5th man in the party due to his variety of (without any argument) more powerful abilities than those of the Skald.