Effectively, yes, the end of the spear is a staff, just because it is a long stick of wood. Taking 4 levels of rouge means you only lose 1 Base attack bonus.6 Rogue (3) - Dex to Damage via rouge's finesse - albeit using a generous reading of the ability "starting at 3rd level, she can select any one type of weapon that can be used with Weapon Finesse.
spear dancing spiral and quarterstaff master spear dancing style is from the weapon masters handbook, a pahtfinder player companion. You wield spears with poise and grace. You can use polearms and spears as double weapons. Including the Dancing spiral and dancing reach feats I still question it's usefulness. I have nothing to contribute, I just wanted to give +1 for bringing back good memories of those books :)Thus I think you would need both, or one of the options in the same book to have feats apply to all weapons in the same group.My question is can I now is this: If I want both the spear dancing style tree and the quarterstaff master tree, do I have to take both weapon focus spears and weapon focus quarterstaff or is there some way that I can do this that avoids that?I think it would only apply when using the end of the spear as a quarterstaff. 17 You wield spears with poise and grace.
Instead of a 1d6/1d6 staff, you've now got a 1d12/1d6 staff (in the case of, say, the Lucerne Hammer).
Spear Dancing Spiral (Combat) The gadget spec URL could not be found. I never really worry about that anyway. You net 3 damage and slap the twf penalty on your self in exchange for losing reach and breach?It is much more of a Str ranger TWF than a Dex rogue TWF setup although spending some of your rogue talents on feats can make it kind of worth it.5 Rogue (2) - Spear Dancing Reach (Combat trick), Lunge ### Lunge stacks with SD ReachI made my point on the dancing reach in the post above so I will skip it here.I've seen the feat a lot and it seems cool but it doesn't seem good. Prerequisite (s): Dex 15, Spear Dancing Style, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon. level 2 … But you still need Weapon Focus: spear to get the feat in the first place. Can anyone give me some good uses for the feat chain?7 Rogue (4) - Improved TWF, Shatter Defenses (Via Ninja trick (combat trick)) ### If you hit someone that is shaken, they become flat footedThe amount of feats needed for that quarter staff dual wield polearm build would ridiculous. Still sounds cool.3 Rogue (1) - Weapon Finesse (Bonus unchained Rouge feat) , Spear Dancing Spiral ### No point getting either rouge before Spear Dancing Spiral (If you just plan on using just the one polearm)*Spear Dancing Spiral allows you to apply quarterstaff feats to polearms. It may strike as a spear at one end, and a staff at the other, but the weapon itself is still a spear. It's based on letting you wield a shield and a polearm at the same time.Sounds cool and seems like a cool plot twist for a dm to spring on their plays. Spear Dancing Spiral (Combat) You wield spears with poise and grace. Lots of flavor and it is functional. the second feat in the tree, spear dancing spiral says that you can use any feats and abilities that apply to the quarterstaff for spears.At least, that's how I read it.Edit: since this weapon is in two groups, could you switch between having weapon focus in all "monk" weapons and all "spear" weapons?RAW, yes, but RAI I'd say it replaced prerequisites pertaining to quarterstaves to 'any spear you're proficient in'.Right there is half the reason I wanna build one, along with Mat's fighting style, and Kaladin from Stormlight.Well, strictly speaking, it would mean that if you have weapon focus:quarterstaff, it wold apply to your spear, right?