Anyone know of any Perform (dance) based martial options?


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The title says it all really but to elaborate, I'm trying to remember any martial class options (archetypes, classes, feats, etc.) that allow a martial, nonspellcasting class to get combat benefits for Perform (dance) in pathfinder? It's been a while since I've looked and though I could swear there are some but I cannot for the life of me think of them off hand.

So does anyone know of any?


dervish dance is a feat with prereq of 3 (perform dance) and allows dex to damage?


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does shadowdancer prestige class count?
if looking into 3PP Path of War: Expanded has Mithral Current, which uses Perform (Dance) for a lot of cool stuff.


There is also the Spear Dancer feat, as well as mayybe the Spear Dancing Style? (im not sure about that one.)


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There are a few off the top of my head (that don't include 3PP):

Grig Jig Rogue Talent allows you to Perform (dance) to force a compulsion dance-off.

Dance of Disorienting Shadows Advanced Rogue Talent allows you to Reposition via Dance.

Mocking Dance allows for some movement when you do a Performance Combat Check (there is also a Feat to allow every combat to count as a Performance Combat).

Wand Dancer is Spring Attack for Wands.

There may be more, but its late. Have fun dancing!

Scarab Sages

Versatile Performance lets you use Perform (Dance) in place of Acrobatics and Fly. Then Slayer's Feint lets you use Acrobatics to Feint instead of Bluff. 2 levels of Dawnflower Dervish Bard then going Slayer and taking the Improved Feint/Greater Feint chain could be effective. Especially now that they've cleared up how Greater Feint works.


Look at the dervish of dawn bard archtype


Most of the Perform stuff is in the wheelhouse of the Bard, but there's a couple items for other folks.

The Dawnflower Dervish archetype for Fighter utilizes Dervish Dance. So does the Whirling Dervish archetype for Swashbuckler, though neither technically rewards you for Perform (Dance) (beyond the benefits of having the feat).

The Janni Style feats have ranks in Perform (Dance) as prerequisites.

There's the Deadly Troupe teamwork feat with Perform (Dance) prereqs that boosts feint and Acrobatics.

The magic item Boots of the Eternal Rose boost Perform (Dance) and let you use dancing to cast Daze Monster.

The item Daring Dancers lets you 5-foot step over difficult terrain and lets you cast Dimension Door if you have 5 ranks in Perform (Dance).

The item Hypnotic Tattoo lets you use dancing to inflict a -2 penalty on Perception and Sense Motive to an enemy while dancing (with no save, I believe).


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The evangelist deific obedience for Shelyn and the bard variant multiclass can get non-bards versatile performance - and thus the use of dance for other skills - as well.

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