I am about to play a Pathfinder game and I am playing a Stonelord Paladin archetype and my wife is going to be a Skald. Well, the Skald has Raging Song and in a few levels, I will have Defensive Stance and these two powers don't stack. It makes me kind of sad for two of our most useful powers to be mutually exclusive, at least as far as my character goes.
Is there any advice anybody can give as to how to play this - either from a character design perspective or tactics to use that will allow me to get the most out of Defensive Stance and Raging Song?
Well, my first thought is to rely on the Raging Song, which gives me more tactical flexibility, until either she starts to get low on Raging Song or I get into a situation where I can be pretty confident that I won't need to move. That might leave me not using my Defensive Stance as much as I might, but I also won't need to worry as much about not moving either.
Another related issue is that our other party members are a Strength dumped Swashbuckler and a crossbow wielding Rogue. We're just hoping that the only person benefitting from Raging Song won't just be the Skald.
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Take a look at the spell warrior archetype for skald. This replaces inspired rage with weapon song, this song enchants the party's weapons instead of granting rage, but tbe wielders of tbe weapons still get rage powers.
I've looked at spell warrior and the magic weapon thing seems pretty good for us. Though my wife is really sad over the idea of losing spell kenning at level 5, so feels conflicted