Occult: Mesmerist Stare, what kind of action?

[rknop]

Reading about the Hypnotic Stare in Occult Adventures, I can read that it's obvious that both activating and maintaining a Hypnotic Stare is a standard action, or that it's obvious that it's a free action.

Which is it? Is there an official source for the answer somewhere that I could post PFS GMs and players to?

The fact that it talks about doing other things (e.g. a gaze attack or similar ability) while maintaining a stare implies that it actually can't be a standard action at least to maintain it, but other things (like Bardic Performance) that can be maintained for free explicitly call it out as being so.

[GM Rednal]

Quote:

A mesmerist can focus his stare on one creature within 30 feet as a swift action. That creature takes a –2 penalty on Will saving throws. This penalty changes to –3 at 8th level. A mesmerist can maintain his stare against only one opponent at a time; it remains in effect until the mesmerist stares at a new target, the opponent dies, the opponent moves farther than 30 feet away, or the mesmerist falls unconscious or dies.

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1) Swift to Activate
2) No action to maintain (it's automatic)

What's the concern here, exactly?

[rknop]

Gah. Reading failure on my part. I didn't see the words "as a swift action" in there for some reason....