What do you guys think; do the following abilities work together? I believe that they would, but I'd like to hear from the peanut gallery as well!
Aerial Assault (Su)
You can charge at creatures in the air, or leap across obstacles as part of a charge. When making a charge attack, you can expend one use of mythic power to include a single Acrobatics check made to jump, adding 10 feet per tier to the height or distance you jump. You take no falling damage from the height gained as part of this leap. If your attack hits, you may deal an amount of additional damage equal to the falling damage appropriate for the height you reached. Alternatively, you may replace your melee attack from this charge with a grapple check. If you successfully grapple a creature, you bring it to the ground with you at the end of your jump, and it takes an appropriate amount of falling damage for the height it was at when you grappled it.
Death from Above (Combat)
You allow gravity to add extra force to your charges.
Benefit: Whenever you charge an opponent from higher ground, or from above while flying, you gain a +5 bonus on attack rolls in place of the bonuses from charging and being on higher ground.
Death from Above (Mythic)
When attacking from the air or higher ground, you bear down on your enemy to deadly effect.
Prerequisite(s): Death from Above.
Benefit: Whenever you charge an opponent from higher ground, or from above while flying, the critical multiplier of your weapon increases by 2 (to a maximum of ×6). This doesn't stack with other abilities that increase a weapon's critical multiplier. If your charge attack hits, you can perform a trip combat maneuver against the attack's target as a free action without provoking attacks of opportunity.
So can you use the Death From Above feat(s) with the Aerial Assault ability? You are making a charge with the Aerial Assault, and one could conclude you are doing so from higher ground.
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Is it not allowed due to specific wording in the Death From Above feats? Discuss.
Anyone?
It will be situational. Using Aerial Asault is a charge attack, but will not necessarily be from higher ground, and definitely doesn't seem to work if flying above your enemy.
I would say it depends on how high your opponent is flying and how high you jump. If your jump gets you above your target, then yeah, they would both work. But in most cases, you probably won't satisfy Death from Above's requirement.
Yes they work together IF you jump higher than your opponent and hit them on the way down. The only restrictions seem to be the need to jump (ostensibly from the ground) for Aerial Assault and to be higher than your target at the time of the attack for Death From Above.
True, it would be situational in that you have to be in an open area or an area with a high ceiling. And if you are simply using Aerial Assault to charge an opponent on the ground then you will always be higher than them via the jump with Aerial Assault.
Thanks for the input guys.