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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magesmiley" data-source="post: 5391627" data-attributes="member: 26292">So to clarify some of my thinking - the passage explicitly indicating that they don't stack is a really strong indicator that the enhancement bonus for the masterwork property and the magic enhancement bonus are two separate bonuses of the same type.Normally, if there are two bonuses of the same type, only the bigger one applies. However, if the bigger one ceases to be applied for some reason, the lesser usually kicks in (a good example might be normal plate mail + mage armor vs an incorporeal attack).It really comes down to how you interpret the transfer statement in the defending ability - I interpret it to mean that if you transfer everything to AC that the magic of the weapon grants a +0 enhancment bonus to attack rolls,  and that since the masterwork enhancement bonus is still in effect, you get a +1 on attack rolls.Finally, what constitute's the sword's enhancement bonus is another fun grey area. Does it mean any enhancement bonus on the sword or just the magical pluses? I interpreted that to mean the magical pluses. Interpreting it any other way can lead to some really odd situations.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm    :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></blockquote>