Bloody Assault questions

[badbak]

Bloody Assault:
Pre: St 13, Power attack, bab +6
Benefit: You can choose to take a -5 penalty on all melee attack rolls and combat maneuvers to inflict 1d4 bleed damage with your weapon melee attacks...

So I am playing a 8th level fighter meeting the prereqs.

When I attack using Bloody assault,
1) Do I suffer the -5 penalty from the feat and the power attack penalty for my level?

2) Can I use vital strike with bloody assault?

3) Can I attack using full attack bonus (not power attacking) with only the -5 penalty from the bloody assault feat?

4) Can the feat be used with the cleave tree...

Reason I am asking is I can envision a situation where the character would want to move into melee with foe and vital strikes with full attack bonus -5 penalty for the bloody assault feat.

thanks

[Evil Dave is Evil]

badbak wrote:

When I attack using Bloody assault,

1) Do I suffer the -5 penalty from the feat and the power attack penalty for my level?

2) Can I use vital strike with bloody assault?

3) Can I attack using full attack bonus (not power attacking) with only the -5 penalty from the bloody assault feat?

4) Can the feat be used with the cleave tree...

1) Yes, if you use both Power Attack *and* Bloody Assault, you will take both penalties. As an 8th level fighter, you'll have a -3 for Power Attack and a -5 for Bloody Assault, for a total of -8 if you use them both.

2) Yes

3) Yes

4) Yes

You may use Power Attack, Bloody Assault, both, or neither on any attacks you make. Cleave and Vital Strike will both benefit from the feats, but Cleave and Vital Strike can't be used together (just a reminder). Remember that the penalty lasts all round, so you'll have the penalties and benefits if you make an attack of opportunity during the round after you declare it.

I hope this helps!

[badbak]

Ok, thanks, confirmed my suspicions. Now I have a second opinion when I go to use it.

[DonKeebals]

I haven't found this anywhere else and I'm curious will bloody assault stack with my ninja bleeding attack? The bleeding attack from the ninja traits states that the bleeding attack from THIS ability does not stack with ITSELF. The bloody assault feat says bleed damage from THIS feat does not stack with ITSELF. Will they stack with each other? Could I put these together to get a 1d4 + 4 damage on a sneak attack?