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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Sullivan" data-source="post: 1105344" data-attributes="member: 9824">Several people have commented that, at high levels, the bonuses from the skill-bonus feats will be outstripped by ranks in those skills.  That seems to me not to hold up to careful examination.  We're talking about +2, +3, or +5, here.  Would you turn down an extra +2 or +3 to your attack bonus as a 20th level Fighter just because your BAB of +20 "outstrips" the +2 or +3?  I mean, sure, the +20 to hit is obviously a lot more important than +2 or +3, but that doesn't make the +2 or +3 less helpful.The DC's that you face are likely to scale up as you go up in level.  That being the case, it's not really important what your total bonus is, it's the relation of your total bonus to the DC's that's important.  If we make the (possibly unwarranted) assumption that DC's of important challenges scale up at approximately +1/2 character levels, the +3 from skill focus will be about half as good at level 20 (assuming you've dilligently maxed the skill) as it was at level 1.</blockquote>