Weapon enhancements and Class Abilities


Advice

Liberty's Edge

Hey all,

I know this might seem a little odd but maybe it's just the thematic issues I'm encountering but could you utilize the Arcane Archer's enhance arrow abilities with the Endless Ammunition ranged weapon enhancement (UE pg. 141). Or do they not work together?

Scarab Sages

After reading both again (this one is a bit tricky), I don't see any reason why they would not work together. You are using a magically enhanced bow to create non magical arrows and the enhance arrow ability makes the arrows magical. The only problem I can see is a possible interpretation that the Enhance Arrows ability only applies to physical arrows and not magically created ones (expect table variation situation).

Please do not take this as "law", I hope to see others weigh in on this question as I am considering it myself for a character or two. Who says you don't learn something new every day.

Silver Crusade

Yes, they work together. However, remember that duplicate abilities do not stack. In particular, an arrow fired from a +1 endless ammunition longbow deals 1d8+1 damage, even if it was enhanced by an Arcane Archer.

Personally, I think the endless ammunition longbow is a waste of money. At the very least, it costs 18,375 gp for a +1 endless ammunition longbow. A +1 longbow costs only 2,375 gp. You are paying 16,000 gp so that you don't need to buy arrows anymore? A bundle of 20 arrows costs 1 gp. To break even, you would need to fire the bow 320,000 times.


I think this one belongs in the rules forum.

Liberty's Edge

Didn't think of the rules forum, was just wanting other GM's to weigh in on it.

The Exchange

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber; Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber
Emeric Kessel wrote:
Didn't think of the rules forum, was just wanting other GM's to weigh in on it.

This is indeed more of a rules question and is not specific to PFS. This area is really for PFS specific questions.

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