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pauljathome wrote:SEKplayer wrote:
I have also been toying with the Acrobat Dedication. Pick it up at level 2 and get expert acrobatic proficiency and free scaling at 7, & 15. This would allow you to have both acrobatics and whatever your style skill check is at max proficiency for your level ASAP. Thoughts?
You're essentially trading a class feat for some skill raises, skill raises that you can take anyway. So, effectively, you're trading it for a skill raise in another skill if you were planning to go all in for acrobatics.
My biggest problem with that trade is that there are a LOT of swashbuckler feats that I want. It's one of the few classes where I'm VERY tempted to NEVER dip.
It's by no means a BAD idea but personally I wouldn't do it
you can't take "anyways" simultaneously both your panache and acrobatics, one will lag 2 levels behind.
Plus, since you are forced to take both your panache and acrobatics, that leaves you with only 1 skill of your choice to raise which is severely limiting.
you are trading a class feat for 3 skill increase, and basically early advance in one of your two important skills.
plus, an increase on maximum legendary skills from 3 to 4.
all those for a single level 2 class feat are quite strong imo.
Very well worded, that was the point I was trying to get across. Acrobat Dedication accelerates your skill checks by a couple levels. If you don't want to spend the class feat and are Human or adopted, you can pick Acrobat Dedication up at L2 then re-train at L9 and use the Multitalented ancestry feat. *Corrected by shroudb below.
Apologies if someone mentioned it before:
Battle Dancer is strong because of the new APG skill feat Acrobatic Performance. That means you can target either Will or Reflex DC off of your acrobatic skill. Add in Virtuosic Performer and an unbreakable goblin with Bouncy Goblin and now you've got a +1/+2 circumstance bonus to perform/tumble through respectively. You can safely dump CHA as a battle dancer. As well, with performance if you keep increasing your performance proficiency you can fascinate more than 1 enemy at a time, letting you target more than 1 creature to see if they have a bad will save (i.e., boss/minions) and that likely increases your chances of success. You could also get yourself a familiar via multi-classing for 1 or 2 class feats and give it the accompanist trait for a +1 circumstance bonus or +2 if your a master in performance.
One caveat, Leading Dance requires a "Performance check" and not a "Perform action" so you wouldn't be able to roll acrobatics for it. So if you did dump CHA you would suffer with the Leading Dance feat.