| BaloTheJester |
I saw a post about this buried in the archives that no-one responded to, so I'm resurrecting this; we're coming up on the level where I'll qualify for Weapon Swap, and I want to be sure I understand it correctly. I suppose these may require answers from the Paizo folks themselves, but it can't hurt to throw it out into the community.
#1: Just to make sure, as I had a disagreement about this with my DM--Weapon Swap is intended to be done while you are wielding two weapons, correct? My DM suggested that the intention of the feat was to wield a single weapon but still gain the extra attacks from wielding two weapons, and I can see where that might come from given some small grammatical oddities in the mechanical description, even though the "flavor" description suggests that you are wielding two weapons and swap them around from hand to hand when you use this feat.
#2: This is more of a mechanics issue--how do you calculate the bonuses on your attacks when using this feat? Which of the myriad possible advantages of this feat are the ones Paizo intended to give me?
All the feat says, in my version of the rules anyway, is "Make your off-hand attacks with your primary weapon". Do you use the same attack bonuses to calculate your attack rolls, or do you calculate the off-hand attacks as though they were being done with your primary weapon? And thus, do you also calculate them as though you were wielding two of that weapon, including any possible penalties for your off-hand weapon not being a light weapon?
E.G.: My primary hand's attacks, when I get to a +11 attack bonus, are +17/+12/+7 (magic longsword with a bunch of feats stacked on it), and my off-hand attacks are +12/+7 (silver short sword that is mostly there to give me my shield bonus from TWD). So, is my attack chain calculated:
The same as it would have been without WS, but with higher damage done? (+17/+12/+12/+7/+7)
As though I were making off-hand attacks with my primary weapon at its highest and second-highest bonus?
(+17/+17/+12/+12/+7)
As though I were wielding a magic longsword in each hand?
(+15/+15/+10/+10/+5)
Or do I do all the attacks with my primary hand, and then roll at the highest and second-highest bonus again?
(+17/+12/+7/+17/+12)
I'm so confused, and I'm not sure I explained this clearly--and apologies if this was covered somewhere else. Thank you in advance?