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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5218360" data-attributes="member: 78958">Blade of Blood is one of the more useless spells in the game. Deal damage to yourself to deal paltry more damage to an enemy, that you also have to hit to deal said extra damage at all? What were they smoking? Hell, the damage wouldn't even be impressive if a) you incurred no damage yourself, and b) at least dealt the extra damage automatically.True Strike-->Power Attack is good, but still nothing to drool about, as it's capped by your BAB. Very good in a charge, or with PA enhancers, though (Leap Attack, Battle Jump, Valorous weapon, Headlong Rush, you name it).With Arcane Strike, you have a way of turning all those low-level spell slots into something useful. It's a free action to use, so no limit to the extra 1d4s of damage you can inflict. Only the highest attack bonus applies, though (similar bonuses don't stack).Also, I was wondering, what are???If you mean Reserve Feats, those aren't that useful for a Duskblade (Except maybe Minor Shapechange, if you can get it).Metamagic Feats aren't that useful either, since you don't have high-level spell slots to use them, and you're a spontaneous caster. Maybe if you can use Versatile Spellcaster for it, but it's still not really optimal.Bottom line: don't pick your feats with regard to enhancing your spellcasting abilities. Pick feats to be good at melee instead. You're a gish, that means you're a melee guy first and foremost, with a little extra versatility thrown in for fun. What you're not is a primary spellcaster.</blockquote>

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