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Which +1 Weapon Magical Ability is best ?
- Thread starter Rashak Mani
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RigaMortus
Explorer
What is Sure Strike?
Can you attatch True Strike to this weapon? If so, you would get +20 to hit per swing.
How about something with a Stunning or Daze effect? Actually, Daze might do the trick (it is a level 0 spell too, so less exp/gold cost) as if you hit an opponent with it, they would lose their action for the next round. That would be sweet, you could keep an opponent from doing anything until you finally end up killing them, provided you keep hitting of course.
Just some thoughts...
Can you attatch True Strike to this weapon? If so, you would get +20 to hit per swing.
How about something with a Stunning or Daze effect? Actually, Daze might do the trick (it is a level 0 spell too, so less exp/gold cost) as if you hit an opponent with it, they would lose their action for the next round. That would be sweet, you could keep an opponent from doing anything until you finally end up killing them, provided you keep hitting of course.
Just some thoughts...
Hypersmurf
Moderatarrrrh...
Sure Striking is a weapon special ability that allows the weapon to beat DR as if it were a +5 weapon. It costs as a +1 modifier, but grants no enhancement bonus to attack or damage.
Simple answer is "No".
More complicated answer is "Yes", but someone calculated the price as something like 1.6 million gold, from memory. It's not as simple as just a Use-Activated SL1 CL1 spell, because of the benefit it grants. Or at least, any DM who allows it as such is nuts
Alternatively, there's the Bow of True Arrows, which requires a command word (standard action) to activate a True Strike for the next single attack with the bow. So someone who can normally fire three arrows per round - or six in two rounds - can instead fire one True arrow and two normal arrows every second round if they choose.
I think that's more like a 4000 gp price tag, again from memory.
-Hyp.
Rashak Mani
First Post
I´ll check the rules to see if he can make any +2 weapon... I had understood it as including all the special bonuses...
Zhure
First Post
Throwing, coupled with Returning. Technically that's a +2, but you could start with Throwing. Boomeranging Greatsword of doom, anyone?
From the Psionic Handbook, I like Charged. It's an extra 1d4 of damage, but no elemental effect like Shocking, Flaming and so forth. That way you don't have to worry about resistances.
Greg
From the Psionic Handbook, I like Charged. It's an extra 1d4 of damage, but no elemental effect like Shocking, Flaming and so forth. That way you don't have to worry about resistances.
Greg
SpikeyFreak
First Post
Sure Striking really isn't worth it on your primary weapon. Get a back-up weapon and put sure striking on it.
Keen is my favorite +1 equivalent. On weapons with a large crit range it makes crits almost likely, and on weapons with a small crit range it actually allows you to crit every now and then.
I like the cold energy enchantments because they do extra damage versus the fire subtype, and that seem to me to be the most common and/or most interesting elemental subtype encountered.
Note also that CRGreathouse is correct, you can make a +2 weapon with other enchantments on it at 7th level.
And honestly, if I had to choose between a +2 weapon and a +1 flaming or +1 keen weapon, I would go with the +2 weapon. Especially at 7th level, when there are actually times when it is hard to hit stuff.
--Advisory Spikey
Keen is my favorite +1 equivalent. On weapons with a large crit range it makes crits almost likely, and on weapons with a small crit range it actually allows you to crit every now and then.
I like the cold energy enchantments because they do extra damage versus the fire subtype, and that seem to me to be the most common and/or most interesting elemental subtype encountered.
Note also that CRGreathouse is correct, you can make a +2 weapon with other enchantments on it at 7th level.
And honestly, if I had to choose between a +2 weapon and a +1 flaming or +1 keen weapon, I would go with the +2 weapon. Especially at 7th level, when there are actually times when it is hard to hit stuff.
--Advisory Spikey
