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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2545303" data-attributes="member: 3146">That's actually a very good plan... just not for a single-class or mostly single-classed fighter.A fighter doesn't suffer as much from feat burn and some of his primary abilities are the weapon specialization and focus feats that encourage him to use a single weapon.On the other hand, a barbarian, ranger, paladin, or multiclassed/non-traditional fighter (fighter/mage, fighter/cleric, fighter/rogue, combat focussed cleric, etc), doesn't get to take proper advantage of the weapon specialization tree (and may not get to use any of them) and pays a much higher opportunity cost for feats.There's also the consideration of magical weapons. If your're going to just magic up one weapon, it's more cost-effective, but you suffer because some of your abilities are ineffective against some foes. (For instance, a +1 holy flaming shock longbow wastes the flaming and shock against demons, the flaming against devils, the holy against slaads, etc. Similarly, a +1 holy wounding guisarm wastes the wounding against undead and is basically just +1 against inevitables). On the other hand, if you are going to wield multiple weapons to begin with, you can more easily have a couple of good weapons which will generally use their bonusses well. For instance, a +1 ghost touch, undead bane sword and a +1 wounding guisarme are a pretty good combination because the sword is effective against the biggest group that the guisarm is not effective on.So, I'd say it's a good options for fighter-types with limited feat selections but who want to have a reach-weapon option.</blockquote>

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