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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9865690" data-attributes="member: 93670">There was a behind the curtain side bar that talked about setting appropriate values on pg300 of the 3.5 mm.  I have an old post <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/return-to-the-3-saves-for-1d-d.692670/post-8810108" target="_blank">here</a> that copies what it said, I'd be shocked if PF didn't have a similar bit of guidance somewhere but not going to hunt.  Depending on how you built encounters & what kind of gear your players had it's entirely possible that just rolling with it using default gear was still optimal or they had gear that would be good enough by design☆ weapon.  A hypothetical+1 flaming longsword might not hit as often as a roughly equally valued +2 longdsword, but it would reliably apply the elemental die to pretty much everything not sporting fire resistance & even then it would be really odd to see it also sporting DR that nullifies the slashing too.[spoiler="☆3.5  DMG292"]Whenever damage reduction completely negates the damagefrom an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompanythe attack, such as injury type poison, a monk’s stunning, andinjury type disease. Damage reduction does not negate touchattacks, energy damage dealt along with an attack (such as firedamage from a fire elemental), or energy drains. Nor does it affectpoisons or diseases delivered by inhalation, ingestion, or contact.Attacks that deal no damage because of the target’s damage reduction do not disrupt spells.[/spoiler]Whilre looking for that I Also noticed this gem on 3.5 dmg 283 about the golfbag as a concept <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[spoiler]BEHIND THE CURTAIN: SPECIAL WEAPONS MATERIALSEach of the special materials described in this section has a definitegame effect. Some creatures, such as fey, have damage reductionbased on their creature type or core concept. Some are resistant to allbut a special type of damage, such as that dealt by evil-alignedweapons or bludgeoning weapons. Others are vulnerable to weaponsof a particular material. Fey tend to be susceptible to cold iron.Combating golems is best done with adamantine weapons.Characters may choose to carry several different types of weapons,depending upon the campaign and types of creatures they mostcommonly encounter. Some may use silversheen, described on page266, designed to temporarily add the property of alchemical silver to aweapon. Its cost was carefully considered so as not to let silversheenovershadow weapons actually containing alchemical silver. You’ll alsonotice that cold ironsheen is not mentioned. This is intentional. Coldiron’s core attribute is its resistance to magic. Making a magic itemthat mimics this attribute undermines its concept.[/spoiler]If you were giving out lots of elemental weapons (or allowing their crafting) or not setting dr/resist high enough it's entirely plausible that your players weight the cost/benefit of swapping to another weapon that would ignore it & decided the cost of doing so was greater than eating the DR each attack</blockquote>

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