Dancing Glaive Question

[arcseed]

Dancing weapon says, "You can deliver basic attacks and attack powers through the dancing weapon as if you were holding it yourself." Does this mean you can use a shield and make attacks of opportunity with a two-handed dancing weapon? It does say the dancing weapon can't make opportunity attacks, but I take that to mean that both you and the weapon can't OA, not that you can't take an OA through the weapon.

If so, there's a kinda mean combo with a dancing glaive+ polearm gamble+ heavy blade opportunity+ tide of iron. Every time someone moves next to you, you get an OA with tide of iron, and if that hits, you push them away from you, too far to attack without reach, and too close to charge with another action.

Mean, but I don't think it's too powerful, considering it's two paragon level feats, a 20th level weapon, and not useful in all situations, particularly since it makes you a lot less sticky. (Combat Challenge needs you to be adjacent.)

Also, the dancing weapon attacks on its own if you don't attack with it "before the end of your turn." Does that mean between the beginning of your turn and the end of your turn, or between the end of last turn and the end of this turn?

 

[Tale]

It does say the dancing weapon can't make opportunity attacks, but I take that to mean that both you and the weapon can't OA, not that you can't take an OA through the weapon.

No, it means that you can't make OA with the weapon.

 

[Starglim]

edit: no, what I had in mind doesn't work.

Regarding the "end of your turn", I believe, in context, that refers to the end of the turn when you released the weapon. For later rounds, it's not entirely explicit, but I would allow the weapon to attack if you haven't attacked with it in the time period between sustaining the power and the end of that turn.

 

[arcseed]

Tale, I'm pretty sure that's not what it's saying. The bit about the dancing weapon not being able to make opportunity attacks is in the paragraph about the weapon attacking on its own, not the paragraph about delivering attacks through the weapon. Also, the terminology is different-- one way, you make an attack that is "delivered through" the weapon. If you haven't done this, the weapon itself can make an attack. The description of the dancing weapon says that the weapon can't make an opportunity attack-- it says nothing about being able to deliver an opportunity attack through the weapon.