I just finished rolling up a bard for our playtest one shot next week, and was slightly disappointed with my perceived lack of support for the bard in mythic feats, mythic spells, and path abilities. We are going with level 10, mythic tier 5 for the playtest. I decided to build a support/warlord style bard with archery as a fall back.
Mythic path selection was a simple choice between Marshal and Trickster. Trickster seemed pretty dull, but Marshal introduced the orders, which inspired the character concept as a field general type. I ended up taking the dual path feat to get the Wild Arcana Archmage ability, but I was disappointed with the lack of good options in Archmage for bards. I really wish the Archmage or Trickster paths would have had abilities that keyed off or improved bardic performances. Since I really couldn’t boost my bardic performance, I ended up taking Assured Skill, Additional Order (Advance), Greater Power, Confidence, and Unwavering Skill. I really liked how much the martial path boosted my skills. Between bardic knowledge and Unwavering Skill, I can take 10 on a huge number of skills, which is really cool. I am also excited that I have a huge amount of mythic power, and that it is more powerful.
Mythic feats were also slightly disappointing because so many of them had the prereqs of non-mythic feats. Dual Focus seemed like an obvious choice for the extra mythic power, and mythic arcane strike and point blank shot seem like they will be fun. Dual path was a nice way to get the Wild Arcana ability so that I can access the whole spell list in a pinch, though I worry it will really slow the game down when it is used. I ended up taking mythic spells for my last mythic feat to get the mythic versions of suggestion and dispel magic, but I was disappointed with the relatively few choices that were on the bard spell list. I really wished that the bardic spell list had gotten more support from the mythic spells. I would have liked to see mythic versions of spells like Haste, Rage, Confusion, and Heroism to make the choice of mythic spells a little more meaningful for bards.
All in all, I am excited to test out the character next week and I am excited about all the new abilities, but I wish I could have made use of more of the mythic spells and had some way of modifying my bardic performance.
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The Bard/Marshal in my playtest PHP is absolutely AWESOME for the party. Even at level 2 and tier 1.