Quick Draw; Pointless?

[Stone Angel]

So as we are reading through the quickdraw feat last night I notice that after gaining a base attack bonus of +1 you may draw your weapon as part of your move anyway so what is the point of this feat if it is worked into the system like that? Weird!!?


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[green slime]

Because, if you are toe-to-toe with a melee combatant, and he disarms you, or you drop your weapon (for whatever reason), or you are simply surprised with your weapons in their scabbards you cannot draw a weapon and have a full-round attack action.

Kind of sucks if you are a Two-weapon wielder to only get one attack, when you could've had four....

Throwing weapons (daggers) also benefit from Quickdraw, in that you can then maintain a rate of fire equal to your base BAB.

 

[Sammael]

The points are:

-You can draw a weapon on a surprise round
-You can use a melee weapon, drop it, draw a ranged weapon, and attack with it (provided you have multiple attacks per round)
-You can throw more than one thrown weapon per round
-You can show off

 

[eabha]

Kind of sucks if you are a Two-weapon wielder to only get one attack, when you could've had four....

Yup.

My rogue/ranger (with two-weapon fighting and armed with a half dozen throwing daggers and four throwing axes) would be pretty close to useless without Quickdraw.

 

[RigaMortus]

As others have stated, it's not like you are always going to be in a position to be able to move and (quick)draw your weapon.

 

[Stone Angel]

Thank you for some reason I was unable to take it out of said context(last nights game) and put it into a different situation. Thank you.


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

It's really cool, and it's a prereq for the Flick of the Wrist feat, a great one for dagger-fighting rogues.

 

[Sledge]

-You can show off

What he said.

 

[Someone]

And if you use a shield, you can ready it, draw your weapon and still attack once.

 

[Philip]

What he said.

It perfect for those Mad Max like scenes, where the guard says: 'give up all your weapons!' and you drop your bastard sword, two shortswords, throwing-axe, six daggers, four darts and longbow at his feet in the blink of an eye. +4 circumstance bonus on Intimidate