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2 years ago ::
Nov 19, 2011 - 9:20PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 11, 2009
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The 'Master of Stories' MC feat which grants the Skald's Aura power seems much more powerful than the other leader MC feats which grants a healing feature.
The other MC leader feats (Initiate of the Faith, Student of Battle, etc) grant the ability to use the healing class feature power once per day, but Master of Stories grants the aura power as an encounter power, and allows the party to call upon its healing once per encounter.
I recognize that the range on Skald's Aura is smaller than the other healing powers (it's always an aura 5, rather than scaling as you level), but the aura's ability to let other characters spend the minor to activate the healer (rather than the leader having to spend the minor) seems to balance out, and the healing granted is (roughly) equal to that granted by other classes' powers.
Do folks think it will be errata'ed to become a daily, or do we (hope against hope) think they may go back and make all those leader MC feats grant a once-per-encounter version of the heals?
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2 years ago ::
Nov 20, 2011 - 2:17AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2010
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Compare it with the Shaman's Mending Spirit MC feat.
It's also worth noting that it's much harder than most MC heals to use to get dying characters back up, since you can't use it on them from range, as with all the other leader encounter heals in the game.
TBH, I doubt either case will occur. I suspect it's currently as it was intended to be.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 20, 2011 - 10:43AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 11, 2009
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Fair point there re: Mending Spirit, in that it grants access to a leader's feature heal as a 1/encounter power.
Though it takes two feats to get it though (as Mending Spirit requires that you already be MC'ed into Shaman via the Spirit Talker feat), so it's not quite in the same family of feats as the ones I mentioned above.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 13, 2012 - 6:54AM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2011
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Does this feat mean, every member of the party can use it once. Or just one of the party members can use it and after that it's gone?
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1 year ago ::
Mar 23, 2012 - 2:11AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2010
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It means it can be used once. Its benefit can happen a grand total of once. Per day, since the errata at the end of February.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 23, 2012 - 2:14AM
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Eratta made it a daily, but still more tactically sound than the OBard's Majestic Word.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 26, 2012 - 2:50AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2010
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Easier for people to use, but conversely, more actions to switch on. We had an MC Skald for a long while in our group, and I don't think his aura ever got used, even as an encounter power, because he never had the spare actions to turn it on. Admittedly, that was in a leader-heavy party, but still. Plus, the slide from Majestic Word can be really very helpful.
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1 year ago ::
Mar 26, 2012 - 12:15PM
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- Senior Volunteer Community Lead
Date Joined:
Aug 19, 2007
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The action cost and reduced range on MC skald compared to MC bard is quite notable, and a serious detriment. It's more useful for those who are looking for something other than the heal.
I'm not entirely sold on the result of the errata, since it's still quite good for those who just sought an additional power source keyword or wanted to use the skald at-wills on basic attacks, but frankly pretty annoying for anyone who just wants to genuinely use the heal. I expect a lot of people don't realize the aura needs to be put up as a minor and _then_ a minor can be used to get the heal.
Keith Richmond
Living Forgotten Realms Epic Writing Director
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