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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 9480828" data-attributes="member: 6750235">A boost to initiative is always useful.  There's no question that's a solid ability for Dance bards.  It's the cost associated compared to Lore bard's leveraging skills and extra spell options to get that advantage that manifests from those options that's useful.Not quite.  A Lore bard who spent 5 BI on attack rolls to hit has hit 5 times.5 BI dice granted to try and turn a miss into a hit has hit 3 or 4 times.This is true because both can still miss on a low BI roll but then the Lore bard keeps the die to spend again later.  Every die spent this way eventually succeeds in creating that hit from a miss.In practice the Lore bard has used the same 5 dice 6 or 7 attempts to create those 5 successes.  The BI dice just fail to create that success a portion of the time.2 more successful hits from Peerless Skill with a cantrip attack at those levels are about the same damage as the Agile Strikes even though 5 Agile Strikes are attempted because those Agile Strikes are each less damage and can also miss.It's a comparison of 5 dice spent against 5 dice spent versus 5 dice spent.</blockquote>