Waterstrike questions


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The Watersinger archetype is just oozing with flavour and makes for a neat character, but it's a little vague as to the limits and capabilities of the Waterstrike ability. As such I am a little unsure of a few things.

1. Is Waterstrike a performance, or a separate ability? It calls out requiring Watersong to be active, but bards in general can't have two performances active at once, so how does that work? From what I understand it activates off of Watersong lingering for a round after it ends.

2. Assuming it is a performance, can Waterstrike be maintained? Or does it require another activation of Watersong to be used again? How does that factor into feats like Lingering Performance and Harmonic Spell?

3. What kind of action is performing a Waterstrike? Assuming it is a performance, one would assume it takes a standard action to activate on the first turn it is used, and then a free action to maintain. But if it is just an ability that costs a round of performance to use, is it then a free action to use?

4. Assuming it costs no actions to use, can one attack with a waterstrike as well as normal actions with weapons/spells/etc?


You maintain the 'Watersong' and spend an additional round of bardic performance to attack with 'Waterstrike'. So it is the same action or you treat the water as an summoned monster that has his own (limited) actions as long as you maintain the watersong.

That is how i read the ability.

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