Spiritual Weapon

[elbandit]

Heya!

How many spiritual Weapons can a cleric have in effect at any given time? Is it just one?

 

[Mahali]

I don't see any reason why there can't be more than one. It's not like an effect from a buff or nerf spell (prayer/bless).
Each weapon would have to be redirected seperately.

 

[Uller]

You can have as many as you want. Spiritual Weapon creates an effect. It does not have a target(that it is cast upon). Only targetted spells have a limit to the number that you can have working at a time(For example, the Shield spell has the caster as the target. So the caster may cast as many shield spells as he wants on himself, but only one will ever work at a time). However, it is a standard action to switch targets for EACH weapon. So if you have 3 weapons attacking the same target and that target dies, it will take 3 rounds to switch all of them to a new target. The duration of the spell is rather short, so this could result in a lot of wasted rounds...

Follow up question: Is it possible to give any bonuses to your spiritual weapon to help it attack. For instance, would Divine Favor, Bless, Prayer, Bardic Music, etc. give bonuses to the attack or damage of the weapon. My gut says no, but I'm not sure...

The only spell I can think of that definately increases the weapon's attack bonus is Divine Power. It increases your BAB and that is what SW uses for it's attack bonus.