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About to start running this for a group of (probably) 5 players.

Anyone have any advice for areas that they think I will need to pay specific attention to, either because they're too easy or too hard as written for 4 players?

I'm currently playing a Tiefling Paladin, and I'm considering a dip into Pei Zin Practitioner Oracle, and so I'm trying to figure whether any of the things I currently have wouldn't work with Healer's Way.

I have the following: Tiefling FCB, Mercies, Greater Mercy, Ultimate Mercy, and Bracers of the Merciful Knight.

To my mind the FCB and Mercies should work, although it really boils down to what an effect is.
If FCBs or Class Features aren't effects, then I guess they won't apply, but assuming there isn't some precise definition of effect I've been unable to find, I'd say I'm good.

Greater Mercy is a no brainer, it's a feat, and even if mercies don't apply to Healer's Way, the wording is such that this would still kick in.

Ultimate Mercy is a little gray area, but again I think it's good, since it is using lay on hands to raise dead, a spell with the healing descriptor, so I should be able to spend uses of Healer's Way towards activating it.

Bracers of the Merciful Knight seems it probably doesn't do anything, since it explicitly talks about "when worn by a Paladin" and Healer's Way doesn't care what level Paladin I am. I guess I could buy an argument that the "count's as a Paladin's Lay on Hands" causes them to work, but I'm definitely leaning to no on this one.

Am I wrong on any of this?

There are a number of Vigilante Talents that allow the replacement of a feat if you already have it such as

Shield of Blades (Ex): ... He gains Power Attack as a bonus feat. If he already has the Power Attack feat, he can immediately swap it for another feat for which he qualified at the level he chose Power Attack.

Does this allow you to pick any new feat regardless of the source of the original feat, or would you be required to abide by whatever restrictions were in place when you picked up power attack?

I assume the former, otherwise replacing single feats that weren't chosen from a list is a bit at odds with how you'd treat other feats that were.

(Such as a Warpriest's Weapon Focus in the case of Signature Weapon)