Agile and Amulet of Mighty Fists


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Again, for the record I'm sure; Can Agile be placed on the Amulet of Mighty Fists?

Assuming our character has Improved Unarmed Strike and Weapon Finesse.

"This enhancement can only be placed on a melee weapon which is usable with the Weapon Finesse feat.

Agile weapons are unusually well balanced and responsive. A wielder with the Weapon Finesse feat can choose to apply her Dexterity modifier to damage rolls with the weapon in place of her Strength modifier. This modifier to damage is not increased for two-handed weapons, but is still reduced for off-hand weapons.

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This amulet grants an enhancement bonus of +1 to +5 on attack and damage rolls with unarmed attacks and natural weapons.

Alternatively, this amulet can grant melee weapon special abilities, so long as they can be applied to unarmed attacks. See Table: Melee Weapon Special Abilities for a list of abilities. Special abilities count as additional bonuses for determining the market value of the item, but do not modify attack or damage bonuses. An amulet of mighty fists cannot have a modified bonus (enhancement bonus plus special ability bonus equivalents) higher than +5. An amulet of mighty fists does not need to have a +1 enhancement bonus to grant a melee weapon special ability.

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Improved Unarmed Strike (Combat)
You are skilled at fighting while unarmed.
Benefit: You are considered to be armed even when unarmed—you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you attack foes while unarmed. Your unarmed strikes can deal lethal or nonlethal damage, at your choice.
Normal: Without this feat, you are considered unarmed when attacking with an unarmed strike, and you can deal only nonlethal damage with such an attack."

It makes sense to me. If Weapon Finesse can apply to Improved Unarmed Strike and all. Correct me if I'm wrong and feel free to debate it below!! I'd love to figure this out for certain.


Personally, I think it should work. You still have to pay the enhancement cost for Agile, so the monk is still going to lose out in the long run to pretty much every other class.


Yes, you can.


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Kazumetsa wrote:

Again, for the record I'm sure; Can Agile be placed on the Amulet of Mighty Fists?

Assuming our character has Improved Unarmed Strike and Weapon Finesse.

"This enhancement can only be placed on a melee weapon which is usable with the Weapon Finesse feat"

And AoMF can take any enhancement that a weapon has that can be transferred to a natural weapon or unarmed strike, so yes. You can make an AoMF keen if you like, it will only effect slashing or piercing natural attacks but it's still there.


What the others said.


I'm not even sure what the argument against it is ...


Ninja in the Rye wrote:
I'm not even sure what the argument against it is ...

Well, there have been many nice things for monks that SKR has swooped in to ban or nerf, I assumed the OP was checking if that had occurred yet. Too often it seems more a case of "when" than "if."

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