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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1246597" data-attributes="member: 3146">Actually, it would be useless as long as you're using the Song and Silence version of Expert Tactician. That version specifies that the attack has to happen either before or after your normal action and that it has to be a melee attack. When using spring attack, you do not generally threaten your opponent either before or after your spring attack and consequently are unlikely to be able to use the Expert Tactician attack.Expert Tactician is a very good feat and spring attack is a very good feat but they don't work very well together.And the character who has sneak attack and Spring Attack, doesn't need Blink to pull off sneak attacks. Simply Spring Attack into a flanking position, sneak attack and withdraw to safety. (Now what can you do without the 5+ wizard levels killing your BAB, HP, and sneak attack progression?)Between three combinations of the abilities you discuss (blink +ET, Blink+SA, Spring Attack +SA), there's a lot of synergy. However, adding the third element to the mix doesn't add anything extra.I can think of a few reasons you wouldn't take rogue levels as well.First, your BAB is already low enough that hitting reliably is a problem. There's no reason to exacerbate that problem by taking a rogue level.Second, your caster level has probably already taken enough hits that taking enough rogue levels to crank sneak attack would be painful.Third, most characters will run into favored class/XP penalty dificulties if they have fighter/bbn/ranger/pal, sor/wiz, and rogue levels.That's not to say that a character couldn't be built to take advantage of the synergy between blink, expert tactician, and sneak attack. (I imagine that, with some work and some luck, a melee focussed rogue/wizard/arcane trickster could be pulled off although it probably wouldn't be much better (in terms of damage) than an archery focussed one (rapid shot gives another attack just as surely as expert tactician) and would inevitably be extremely low-hp for a melee focussed build).</blockquote>

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