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Hi All,
I'm playing a campaign that's just underway with an Arcane Duelist Bard. We're a large party and the other members are:
Zen Archer
Paladin (Sacred Shield)
Blood Arcanist
Archer Fighter
Rogue (Knifemaster)
Vanilla Bard
The Rogue traded out trapfinding, which we would all like to have. I've volunteered to take a dip into Unchained Rogue to pick up it and Disable Device. I don't mind doing it at all since it actually works well with my character concept anyway. The 2nd bard in the group is a caster bard who plans to be a non-combatant.
So, my questions for you good people are the following:
1. Knowing that yes it's not generally a good idea to multiclass with bard, would it better to do the minimal 1 level dip, or should I take 2 or 3?
2. While I don't care about an optimal build, or need to worry about that, I will be serving as a melee support character and I want to do that competently, does my feat progression look good? Any suggestions for improvements? I don't want to sacrifice spell casting entirely, and we can expect to have Inspire Courage and its ilk up and running from sunrise to sunset with all the rounds of performance we'll have...
So here's the build and feat progression I'm considering. Build cannot be changed. I', planning to put all ability score increases into DEX except possibly 1 point for CHA. Yep, the ability scores are correct, 25 point buy and the GM gave humans +2 to one mental and one physical stat to encourage use of the race.
We're using Unchained's Fractional Base Bonuses.
We expect to go to level 20 (Yeah, I know :p) I'm not particularly experienced with high level play, so the feats above about level 12 are pretty speculative in their value for me.
Arcane Duelist 1
STR 13
DEX 17
CON 14
INT 13
WIS 10
CHA 17
Feats:
1: Toughness, Arcane Strike (AD), Weapon Finesse (Human, Will be retrained to Extra Traits with Irrepressible & Magical Knack. Better than Iron Will and I Keep my caster level with the dip.)
2: Rogue 1 Finesse Training
3: Rogue 2 Weapon Focus (Rapier), Rogue Talent: Combat Trick (Accomplished Sneak Attacker)
4. Bard 2 Combat Casting (AD)
5. Deific Obedience (Desna)
6.
7. Spellsong
8. Disruptive (AD)
9. Dazzling Display
10.
11.Discordant Voice
12. Spellbreaker (AD)
13. Step Up
14.
15. Shatter Defenses
16. Penetrating Strike (AD)
17. Following Step
18. Greater Penetrating Strike (AD)
19. Step Up and Strike
Thanks for any help you can give!