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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wyvernhand" data-source="post: 5683584" data-attributes="member: 97681">At 8th level, Bard's basic IC gets bumped to +2/+2, so it should be at least that.  And the song NORMALLY lingers for 5 rounds, Lingering Song makes it linger 5 more (10 total, a whole minute).  Also, he doesn't have to actually STOP the song.  He can fight just fine while keeping it up.  If he wants to cast spells, there is a feat for that in Complete Mage called Melodic Casting.  It lets you use spells and spell trigger items (wands) while keeping your song up.  Its VERY useful.  There are also a lot of feats and spells and items he can get.  At 8th level, he could easily have a +5/+5 Bard song running, possibly more if he doesn't mind being [Exalted] (blech!). Anyway, what you need is a Wandchamber installed in one of your weapons (or both).  This'll cost you about 100g each, and the book source is Dungeonscape.  This'll allow you to pack a wand in there and activate it without actually holding the wand. Now you need a wand to put in there.  For 750g, you can get a wand of Gravestrike (CDivine, repinted in Spell Compendium).  This is a swift action spell that allows you to SA undead for 1 round.  It used to be that activating any wand was a standard action, but then the Rules Compendium was released that stated that activating a wand is the same action as casting the spell in the wand.  That means that activating your wand of Gravestrike is a swift action.  50 charges is 50 rounds of combat, which should last you most of the campaign (or at least until you are high enough level that 750g for a 2nd one is trivial).  Its still a DC20 check to activate, but thats not so bad by 8th level, assuming you have max ranks (11), a +2 Cha, and a +2 masterwork tool (100g, PHB).  You also get a +2  bonus if you've activated it before, so thats a total of +17, meaning you only fail on a roll of 1 or 2.  In another 2 levels, you'll be able to auto-make it on a 1, which means you will never fail. Another wand I'd highly highly highly suggest you get is a wand of Lesser Vigor.  LV is in Complete Divine, but I think it was reprinted in SpC.  At minimum CL, it gives Fast Healing 1 for 11 rounds.  Thats 11 HP healed with 1 charge in just over a minute.  If you do the math, thats about 2.3 gp per HP healed.  Contrast that with a wand of Cure Light Wounds's average 5.5/charge or 4.54 gold per HP healed.  About half the price!  This is great for out of combat healing, which'll take some heat off the bard's spells/day so he can spend slots doing other cool things like casting Glitterdust to blind foes.</blockquote>

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