Speak with animals or disguise self

[JabroniCorleone]

I play as a bard. Shadowhearth has disguise self spell... Should I pick this too with my main bard or better speak with animals?

[Dizzy Ladybug]

disguise self is not very helpful, just pick speak with animals

lookout for Speak with Animals potions, and you swap the spell out later

[JabroniCorleone]

Oh ok. I can swap? Im at the beginning right now :-)

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Speak with Animal Potions were pretty easy to come by even relatively early on and last until long rest, so you could pretty easily get by that way.
I personally always want to have the option available, because speaking with all the animals is fun.
I personally only use disguise self if I have to speak with a dead I killed myself. otherwise I barely use it. I also have the mask of the shapeshifter from the digital deluxe...
So both are not really all that important, but if I had to choose I'd probably go for speak with animals...

[Dizzy Ladybug]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

Oh ok. I can swap? Im at the beginning right now :-)

As a Bard you can swap a single spell every single level. I would pick Speak with Animals now and then swap it for something more useful later. There are quite a few animals to speak to in Act 1.

[JabroniCorleone]

I see! Thank you both! I have also the mask from deluxe version. Is it the same like disguise self?

[♠.brT]

Originally posted by JabroniCorleone:

I see! Thank you both! I have also the mask from deluxe version. Is it the same like disguise self?

yes it is literally the same.. So you can have that helmet in your hotbar and you can swap to it anytime you feel the need to use it, and then when you are done with it swap back. Desguise itself can be a useful spell, it can give you a few different interactions with certain npcs, also it can allow you to get the equipment bonus that are racial locked from certain items in the game for example.

And yeah as other have said, speak with animals is probably more useful in the early game, (you won't have that many ingredients for the potions so it's better not to waste them too frequently in the early game) and then later, when you have more money and more ingredients for the potion, you can swap that spell for a different spell.

[JabroniCorleone]

Thank you 🙏 I’ll go for animal speaking