Sacred weapon attack bonus?

[daimaru]

I'm trying to remember why I did something when I set up my warpriest 2 months ago. (Not ruling out a mistake.)

Level one warpriest (base attack bonus +0)
half elf
strength bonus +4

falchion
weapon focus +1
sacred weapon +?

For some reason, I gave the warpriest an attack bonus of +6. I have a note under FEATS saying "sacred weapon (warpriest) (level) +1" which seems to mean that I'm adding in his level as an attack bonus but now I can't find anything in the rules that says I can do this. Did I make a mistake?

What brings this up now is it'[s time to level up. (We only play once a month so I have plenty of time to forget things.)

[Darksol the Painbringer]

You did and you didn't.

The Warpriest 2nd round playtest gave Warpriests a BAB with their Weapon Focused Weapons (and Deity Favored Weapons) equal to their Warpriest level (which stacked with BAB gained from other classes), which is where you're getting the +1 from.

When it came to the final publishing, they removed it because the Fervor power to Swift Self-cast in addition to Full BAB was apparently too much, since it became way too much Cleric (which is good) and not enough Fighter (which is bad); so in order to balance it out with their outdated Fighter class, since apparently it was too much (it is, but the fault wasn't with the Warpriest IMO), they took it out.

They still kept the increased damage dice and empowering abilities though...

[daimaru]

Makes sense. I did the character off the playtest and now I have the ACG. So I should have dropped the attack bonus down to +5 and now, at level 2, it's back up to +6?

[Kazumetsa_Raijin]

daimaru wrote:

I'm trying to remember why I did something when I set up my warpriest 2 months ago. (Not ruling out a mistake.)

Level one warpriest (base attack bonus +0)
half elf
strength bonus +4

falchion
weapon focus +1
sacred weapon +?

For some reason, I gave the warpriest an attack bonus of +6. I have a note under FEATS saying "sacred weapon (warpriest) (level) +1" which seems to mean that I'm adding in his level as an attack bonus but now I can't find anything in the rules that says I can do this. Did I make a mistake?

What brings this up now is it'[s time to level up. (We only play once a month so I have plenty of time to forget things.)

Just remember that it's always your Str Modifier + BAB + Weapon Enhancements + Class Abilities + Feats.

At level 1:
You have a Str Bonus of +4.
You have Weapon Focus of +1.
You have BAB of +0.

Right now you'd be at a total of +5 attack, at 1d6+4 damage(or the weapon damage if it's higher).

At level 2:
You'd still likely have a Str bonus of +4.
You'd still likely have Weapon Focus of +1.
Your BAB would be +1.

You'd be at a total of +6 attack, at 1d6+4 damage(or the weapon damage if it's higher).

Sacred Weapon doesn't give you an Attack bonus, it just gives you the scaling Sacred Damage corresponding to the Sacred Damage on your Warpriest Chart.

[daimaru]

Kazumetsa_Raijin wrote:

Just remember that it's always your Str Modifier + BAB + Weapon Enhancements + Class Abilities + Feats.

At level 1:
You have a Str Bonus of +4.
You have Weapon Focus of +1.
You have BAB of +0.

Right now you'd be at a total of +5 attack, at 1d6+4 damage(or the weapon damage if it's higher).

Thanks, that's what I figured, looking at the rules, and why I was puzzled at what I had done back then. I might have been looking at a level 4 warpriest I had played earlier. At level 4 you do get an attack bonus. Whatever. So long as I'm not cheating now. :)

Take me a while (level 10) before the sacred weapon damage catches up to what I already get with a falchion. 2d4 +6 (two handed). None of the goblins got up after I hit them.