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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kibo" data-source="post: 401844" data-attributes="member: 5451">The +1 is the weapon enhancement, the defender enhancement allows one to choose to apply the magic of the weapon to a defensive act or an offensive act (the default).  But the +1 is an offensive enchantment, and is within the letter and certainly spirit of the rules that it would penetrate DR, and count as a +1 weapon against sunder attempts and all other actions that depend on the enhancement bonus of a weapon.  What a person chooses to apply the enhancement bonus to (hit and damage vs AC) is irrelevant, it never changes the fact that it is a +1 enhanced weapon.  It's not like extra +1 hit and damage from other sources, (weapon focus and specialization) count to reducing DR.  It's the magic enhancement of the weapon, not where that enhancement is employed (should one be so fortunate to have a choice) that the rules being discussed depend on.  In the case of comparing the rules for armor enchantment, the item in question is a weapon, and has a bonus to hit and damage as a default, so is clearly enchanted as a weapon.  The defender enchantment never changes that, it builds upon it.Certainly the idea of enchanting a sword as magic armor is interesting, and I can even see stealing that idea to make really interesting weapons.  But that's not what a defender is.</blockquote>