Quote Originally Posted by ExLibrisMortis View Post
I agree that bard class features are somewhat outshone by Sublime Chord casting, but that only shows how SC takes bard up a tier, doesn't it? If you're a bard (or other tier 3 caster, sure) and take Sublime Chord, you (probably, almost inevitably) end up with a tier 2 build. That you can get more power by being a wizard instead of a bard is a given, but not really relevant to the SC-bard interaction.
I just disagree with the framing. It's like saying that Ur Priest makes Hexblade T2. Yeah, Hexblade/Ur Priest is T2, but Hexblade isn't doing any of the work there.