Do bane weapons become epic vs. their foe?

[Scion]

One might even say it goes along with the reasons for why they changed DR to the way it is now in the first place

'No ordinary weapon can hurt the slayer of worlds.. but if you could craft a weapon that knew just where such a beasts heart was, and it was powerful enough with the magic.. maybe, just maybe you would have a fighting chance'

 

[UltimaGabe]

Plus, remember that Damage Reduction is far less of an end-all, be-all defense that it was before. The majority of DR numbers are far less than before, and therefore overcoming it isn't such a huge advantage.

 

[Stalker0]

Bane works, it should work, let it work.

 

[CRGreathouse]

In 3.0, bane weapons were weak. It would have made sense to allow them to penetrate DR, just to make up for their excessive cost.

In 3.5, though, bane weapons are powerful -- at +1, many players pick them up if there's any type of monster that comes up a little more than usual. Since they're already so good, I tend to think that they shouldn't penetrate DR.

 

[pawsplay]

If a +4 holy greatsword, bane vs. evil outsiders, doesn't penetrate DR, what should? It may not be an epic weapon or an artifact, but for such a specific purpose, surely mortal magic would suffice. I mean, a high level Rogue using sneak attack and flanking can beat DR.