I was wondering if anybody has advice for me. I am playing a fighter/cleric of Eilistraee. Since I have read about that church a lot oog, I know that her clerics are always dancing, are to promote musicians/bards and are expected to learn one of the Dark Lady's favored instruments. Reading the job system, I thought I would like to have her be a minstrel to capture some of that flavor. So, when I was in Cordor, I went ahead and added 2 ranks in the job, figuring I would pick up the ranks in perform when I leveled next. Then, when I finally leveled, it said I would not take ranks in perform.

What can I do to benefit from this job? Or did I just screw up and buy ranks in a job I will never be able to use?

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I play:

Ginafae Dalael - Dancer, dreamer, and cleric of Eilistraee
Maura Connolly - Nurturing druid
Wilimac Merrymar - Daring (reckless?) hin rogue

You screwed up, basically.

The Performer option is the generic equivalent of the bard-specific Minstrel job. You can perhaps request your jobs to be reset once (dunno if it's still available), and in any case spend your next points in Performer.

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Thanks. I will have to go reread minstrel. I didn't see anywhere that only bards could do it. bummer.

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I play:

Ginafae Dalael - Dancer, dreamer, and cleric of Eilistraee
Maura Connolly - Nurturing druid
Wilimac Merrymar - Daring (reckless?) hin rogue

Unless you intend to take any bard levels you won't be able to take any ranks in the perform skill. In that case I would advice making a post in the request forum to reset your job log. Explanation needed of course.

Ok. Thanks for the help. I did not realize that perform was a bard only skill. I have mostly played pnp version of the game where you can learn almost any skill as a cross class skill. I did not know that in NWN perform was bard only.

Oh the fun things you learn the hard way.

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I play:

Ginafae Dalael - Dancer, dreamer, and cleric of Eilistraee
Maura Connolly - Nurturing druid
Wilimac Merrymar - Daring (reckless?) hin rogue

I've noticed some NWN1 servers and all NWN2 servers allow perform to be taken as a cross-class skill.

But Amia doesn't do that because Amia sucks.

Just kidding -.^

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Zeskija Inalka - Catkin Meadowleaf - Xyme Thanas'ka

Yeah I'm afraid you need the bard song ability to do that job.