Hunter's Mercy on a Bow

[Andras]

I'm trying to price out adding Hunter's Mercy 1/d as a free action to a bow.

What I've come up with-

2nd level spell (right?) * 4th Level caster * 2,000gp as a continous item * 4 (duration modifier) divided by 5 for 1/day, or 12,800gp.

The reason I used continous is to represent a free action to activate.

Thoughts?

thanks

 

[Shadeus]

Maybe price it out as a 6th-level spell (quickened hunter's mercy) at 11th-level caster x 1,800 (use activated) / 5 = 23,760 gp. Because this is an add-on to an existing item (a weapon, presumably a magical bow and because its a secondary power, I think you are supposed to multiply it by 1.5 for a total of 35,640 gp.

I'd make it spell-storing and dump the free action part. Much cheaper.

 

[Malum]

35 G for insto crit- how many times a day?

Malum

 

[The Forsaken One]

Drop the free action, make it use activated or command word activated for next round. Something like that. The free action thing always focks with item prices .

(I'd go as far as to suggest a different bowstring to attach with once/day useactivated HM. If you wanna go into sniper mode just take 1 min to reattach the new string and make your sniper attack with it. It's the course I took for my deepwoodsniper in a previous game.)

 

[Andras]

It's for my Occult Slayer Barbarian, I need to be able to quick-draw the bow and ready a 'shoot in case of casting' action.

The problem I had with making it a 'quickened' spell was that it's a ranger only spell, and it would have to be an Epic Ranger with Improved Spell Capacity to cast it. Can't use a spell storing bow, no ranger available, and it's an illegal combo anyway.


OTOH, Boots of Haste are a continous item that is a free-action to activate, and have no cost modifier.

Looking at the Spell compendium now that I'm at home, it's only a first level spell.

Hmm, requires more thought.