Does the war painters furious paint not need a performance to use?

[Malik Gyan Daumantas]

I'm double checking to make sure i'm reading this right.

"The war painter must expend 1 or more rounds of his raging song class ability while anointing the ally, and the paint retains its potency until the war painter recovers his daily uses of raging song. The ally can activate the paint as a move action, gaining the benefits of the raging song, including any rage powers as appropriate. This effect lasts a number of rounds equal to the rounds of raging song the war painter expended + the war painter's ranks in Craft (calligraphy, paintings, or tattoos)—but no more than double the number of rounds of raging song expended."

So i just wanna make sure this means that you can activate the paint and not need to perform to use the paint right? No singing, dancing, storytelling nothing right?

[Derklord]

Yes. Your "performance" is painting the ally's skin, basically. Not that a regular Skald's Raging Song uses perform skills for mechanical purposes...

[VoodistMonk]

You are correct.

Once you spend the rounds of Raging Song to apply the paint, it can be activated without anything further from the Skald.

I believe it works very similar to the Geisha Bard's Tea Ceremony.

[Java Man]

You could chant or sing while applying the paint, if it would make you feel better.