Vanguard Hustle worst feat tax ever

[TheJrade]

Vanguard Hustle is a fairly neat ability with a massive seven-feat requirement. Bad enough, but when you consider three of these are blatant feat taxes it gets pretty awful. Especially when you consider Saving Shield is an objectively inferior version of Bodyguard and both are required. What gives?

[Secret Wizard]

1. Saving Shield is an immediate action, Bodyguard is not an action at all. You can even use them together.

2. It's not a feat tax if every single piece in the feat works with each other. Combat Expertise is a feat tax for Imp. Trip because it doesn't aid your tripping at all. Vanguard Hustle does aid your Saving Shields, Bodyguards and so on, through Combat Patrol, so it needs all of those pieces.