Talk:Bard/@comment-178.24.220.185-20180115233720/@comment-91.101.26.140-20190619153150

While EBS is good, plain bard song at high lvl with 3 luck isn't worse. Sure, immunities are fewer, weapon damage is bit lower, BUT... +3 luck is damn great in spellcasting team. While 20 lvl Skull Trap will do 20 d6, or 70 damage on average, with 3 luck it goes 20x4d6 or 100 average. Many other spells benefit from this as well, be they normal or HLAs. Plus +3 saves is on par or even better than -4 AC lategame. Since bards can normally use at least one action per round and still maintain their song, choosing a bard instead of third arcane caster could be quite beneficial for a party. Neera/Edwin+Imoen/Nalia+Jan+cleric+bard is a surprisingly good team.

Pure evil teams benefit more from EBS tho', due to lower number of evil casters, making Blade preferable to plain Bard.