Arcane Armor Mastery and Mythic Arcane Armor Training

[Jadeite]

Arcane Armor Mastery (Combat) wrote:

You have mastered the ability to cast spells while wearing armor.

Prerequisites: Arcane Armor Training, Medium Armor Proficiency, caster level 7th.

Benefit: As a swift action, reduce the arcane spell failure chance due to the armor you are wearing by 20% for any spells you cast this round. This bonus replaces, and does not stack with, the bonus granted by Arcane Armor Training.

Arcane Armor Training (Mythic) wrote:

You've adapted your spellcasting to overcome limitations of wearing armor.

Prerequisite: Arcane Armor Training.

Benefit: You don't have to spend a swift action to gain the reduction to arcane spell failure chance from Arcane Armor Training. Furthermore, if you're wearing light armor, reduce your arcane spell failure chance by 20%.

Since Arcane Armor Mastery requires its own swift action and Mythic Arcane Armor Training only removes the swift action requirement of Arcane Armor Training, would a character with both feats still have to use a swift action to gain the -20% on arcane spell failure?

[Drachasor]

That's how I read it. If they are wearing Light Armor then they'd get a -40% doing that though -- not very useful.

[Dragonchess Player]

Don't bother with the mythic feat. Wait until 3rd tier, take Component Freedom, and use it to ignore somatic components; then, you can cast in any armor (or cast silently, not use material components, etc.).