Clawed Swordmage

[DracoSuave]

Also, if it qualifies as a weapon, then I'm making me a ranger with a Mordenkrad, this, and powers that require two weapons but don't care what your off-hand weapon is.

2d6 brutal 2 on striker powers designed for one-handed weapons!?! Yes.

 

[James McMurray]

Obviously you will not be convinced that it's a weapon, despite it saying twice that it is a weapon. Have fun!

You cannot wield an offhand weapon and a two-handed weapon, so good luck convincing anyone that your armor counts as your offhand weapon when you aren't capable of using the claws. If it works with your GM, congrats on finding a tard to game with!

 

[DracoSuave]

Ranger powers requiring wielding two weapons don't have 'off-hand weapon' as a pre-requisite.

Example: Dire Wolverine Strike.

If this armor qualifies as a weapon for all powers, then wearing it means wearing a weapon, as well as other weapons you carry. This + Mordenkrad = Two weapons.

I'll count it again.

This. 1. Mordenkrad. 2.

Two weapons. Done.

Unless the power requires a weapon in the off-hand, explicitly, it doesn't ask where the weapon is equipped.

And if this armor is allowed with leather, it allows rogues to use a rapier without a proficiency slot.

No, sir, I don't think this is anything but a basic melee attack.


Besides, you have to factor in 'This is a basic melee attack' into everything you try to use it with.

Example: You want to use it to Booming Blade. Is Booming Blade a basic melee attack? Either the answer is 'No' because the property has that restriction, or yes, the property -makes it a basic melee attack- which means you can, just by wearing the armor, use Booming Blade with AOs.

 

[James McMurray]

Wearing a weapon no more helps you use two weapon powers than having a sheathed sword does. If the armor lets you use ranger powers, your big toe (an improvised weapon you're constantly wielding) also does.

Good luck.

 

[James McMurray]

Example: You want to use it to Booming Blade. Is Booming Blade a basic melee attack? Either the answer is 'No' because the property has that restriction, or yes, the property -makes it a basic melee attack- which means you can, just by wearing the armor, use Booming Blade with AOs.

If that's how you want to interpret it, have fun.

 

[DracoSuave]

You don't need a free hand to wield the armor's attack. Spiked gauntlets are the same way, as they don't take up your weapon slot.

The logic is simple. Either:

a) The basic melee attack is an instruction on how you use the property, in which case, you cannot use the property for anything but basic melee attack

or

b) The basic melee attack is a property the weapon tacks on to all its attacks, making all attacks with it basic melee attacks.

One makes logical sense, the other is smacktarded.

I'll let you figure out which is which.

 

[Mirtek]

Unless the power requires a weapon in the off-hand, explicitly, it doesn't ask where the weapon is equipped.

Unfortunately all 2-weapon-powers requires wielding two weapons, no merely carrying two weapons.

 

[DracoSuave]

The property, if it gives you a weapon, has you wielding the weapon as part of the property. You're not carrying it, you're wielding it, otherwise the attack it gives could not work.

 

[James McMurray]

If that's how you want to interpret it, have fun.

 

[Ibixat]

The wording...

Gain a claw attack while wearing this armor: a
one handed military light blade melee weapon with +3
proficiency bonus to attack rolls and deals 1d8 damage.
The wearer gains proficiency with this weapon. The
claw attack has an enhancement bonus to attack rolls
and damage rolls equal to the enhancement bonus of
this armor. This attack counts as a melee basic attack.

It doesn't work on leather, only hide.

It has a daily which I won't repeat here.

I believe the only reason they give you the one handed and military light blade melee weapon information is so that you are able to use apropriate feats. A rogue could sneak attack with it on a basic attack and various other examples.

There would be no reason to mention it counts as a melee basic attack if it counted as a true wielded weapon, what would be the point of mentioning that you can melee basic with it, you can melee basic attack with ANY melee weapon. By saying that the attack counts as a melee basic attack they are in essense telling you that is all you can use it for.