Inspire Competence bonus

[Lady Melo]

Quick question. When you provide aid with inspire competence, you use perform for the aid check itself, but for the critical success effect do you gain the bonus based on perform rank or your proficiency in the skill your aiding?

[Zwordsman]

Uh. Without looking at the detail stuff.

But you're usuing Performance to Aid, so it would work via performance profiency rank I imagine. Because its always determined by what you roll to aid. You're using performance, so it should count that.

Unless there is some weird thing somewhere which I don't remember seeing.
(if there is, i've been playing my Alch Bard wrong~)

[Lady Melo]

On a re read of aid, It's actually pretty clear it goes off of performance. The exact line is...

If you’re a master with the check you attempted, the bonus is +3, and if you’re legendary, it’s +4.

[Claxon]

I'm not sure where you're pulling rule stuff from, but if you look at the Inspire Competence Cantrip it says:

Quote:

Your encouragement inspires your ally to succeed at a task. This counts as having taken sufficient preparatory actions to Aid your ally on a skill check of your choice, regardless of the circumstances. When you later use the Aid reaction, you can roll Performance instead of the normal skill check, and if you roll a failure, you get a success instead. If you are legendary in Performance, you automatically critically succeed.

The GM might rule that you can't use this ability if the act of encouraging your ally would interfere with the skill check (such as a check to Sneak quietly or maintain a disguise).

To me, there's not even a little ambiguity to this, it only ever refers to performance.