Butterfly's Sting + Sundering Strike + Vital Strike + Greater Sunder


Rules Questions


I had a question on how these feats would work with each other. I'm making a pair of characters for my wife and I to play in PFS together.

She has a swashbuckler kitsune that will have the butterfly strike feat. I'm building a two-handed fighter with a 1-level barbarian dip that will be taking advantage of the crit I'll likely be getting from her character.

My question is this: if my character hits and thus auto-crits, can vital strike be applied to sundering strike? If so (and I see nothing saying it can't), would the vital strike apply to the attack against the foe's HP only, or both the weapon and the foe's HP after the weapon is destroyed because of Greater Sunder?

Similar question: sundering strike states that you can sunder in addition to normal damage. Is normal damage the multiplied damage, or is the sunder in place of the multiplied damage?

Butterfly's Sting: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/butterfly-s-sting-critical

Sundering Strike: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/sundering-strike-combat

Greater Sunder: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/greater-sunder-combat---final

Vital Strike: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/vital-strike-combat---final


Butterfly's Sting does not seem to work with Sundering Strike. Sundering Strike requires you to have a confirmation roll, and with Butterfly's Sting causes you to auto-confirm, so there is no confirmation roll, and therefore your Sundering Strike has no way to activate.

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