The blanching remains effective until the weapon makes a successful attack. Each dose of blanching can coat one weapon or up to 10 pieces of ammunition.
Seems to me like you only get one attack with a melee weapon vs 10 with a ranged weapon. Is that fair? or am I missing something?
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The blanching remains effective until the weapon makes a successful attack. Each dose of blanching can coat one weapon or up to 10 pieces of ammunition.Seems to me like you only get one attack with a melee weapon vs 10 with a ranged weapon. Is that fair? or am I missing something?
Life isn't fair sometimes. But it makes sense. It takes a lot less material to cover 10 arrowheads than it does to coat one sword.
One SUCCESSFUL attack. If you only hit on a 19 or 20, then you might expend your 10 arrows without ever getting that hit, while you can keep swinging with the melee weapon until you do. (Yes, the exact chances are different, but I'm just illustrating a point).
Considering it costs 60gp for a single adamantine arrow. With adamantine blanch you can have ten adamantine arrows for 100gp.
The rule seems ok.
The real truth is this: Buy durable arrows in cold iron, silver, and (when you can afford it later) adamantine.
Eventually you can have a few dozen of each without needing to worry much about the costs because they stick around permanently instead of being destroyed.
Also, that you can get clustered shots at level 6 is a big help in the general department as well.