warpriest sacred weapon

[rabbedrabit]

looking at warpriest sacred weapon it has this line that confuseses me.

At 4th level, the warpriest gains the ability to enhance one of his sacred weapons with divine power as a swift action. This ability grants the weapon a +1 enhancement bonus. For every 4 levels beyond 4th, this bonus increases by 1 (to a maximum of +5 at 20th level). If the warpriest has more than one sacred weapon, he can enhance another on the following round by using another swift action. The warpriest can use this ability a number of rounds per day equal to his warpriest level, but these rounds don't need to be consecutive.

so the war priest can enhance 1 or more of his weapons for a number of rounds equal to his lvl, does this include the first lvl of the ability?

At 1st level, weapons wielded by a warpriest are charged with the power of his faith. In addition to the favored weapon of his deity, the warpriest can designate a weapon as a sacred weapon by selecting that weapon with the Weapon Focus feat; if he has multiple Weapon Focus feats, this ability applies to all of them. Whenever the warpriest hits with his sacred weapon, the weapon damage is based on his level and not the weapon type. The damage for Medium warpriests is given on the table above; see the table below for Small and Large warpriests. The warpriest can decide to use the weapon's base damage instead of the sacred weapon damage—this decision must be declared before the attack roll is made. (If the weapon's base damage exceeds the sacred weapon damage, its damage is unchanged.) This increase in damage does not affect any other aspect of the weapon, and doesn't apply to alchemical items, bombs, or other weapons that deal only energy damage.

the weapon damage is the question. is the weapon damage a full time effect of sacred weapon and the enhanements are round dependent?

[Java Man]

Yes, increased damage dice are constant, the enhancement bonuses are temporary.

[Cat-thulhu]

Warpriest gets the altered base damage with any weapon he has weapon focus in. He can choose to use this damage or the weapons actual damage, whichever is higher I would think. So a kukri wielding warpriest could wield Kukris which deal 1d6 damage at first level, instead of 1d4, up to 2d8 at 20th level. A great sword weilder doesn’t benefit from the ability until level 20 when the sacred weapon damage exceeds 2d6. If using a long sword you’d use it’s base damage of 1d8 until you reach level 10 when your long sword could now do 1d10 damage.

The enhancements to the weapon, the +1 etc are round dependant, similar to other class abilities, and are on top of this. So a Fourth level kukri wielding warpriest would do 1d6 damage and could also enhance her kukri to a +1 kukri for up to 4 rounds a day.

[rabbedrabit]

thanks