Court Bard and Saving Finale

[Spamd16]

I have started my first campaign in Pathfinder and I wanted to tackle a Bard. I liked the idea of a Court Bard, and as I did my research, I realized how great Saving Finale would be to have as one of my first level spells. As I researched further (after we started our campaign), I noticed this in the description, "a creature... affected by your bardic performance fails a saving throw." Since the Court Bard is a debuffing bard, am I correct in reading that the Court Bard will not benefit from the use of Saving Finale? If so, I have a wasted spell. Someone, please tell me that I can still use this spell to benefit my team (I don't want to waste a retraining in the future).

[Lintecarka]

You are correct that saving finale will not work with the Court Bard special performances. As you don't trade away all the regular ones you could still use the remaining ones, but it will be tricky to pull off (as you usually want to use your new toys). At later levels there are spells that allow several performances at once, but thats mostly talking about double digit levels.

[Chess Pwn]

plus as a bard you get free swapping of your old spell starting at lv4 I think. So hopefully you didn't miss that opportunity and can swap your spell then if you don't like it.