A fellow player and I are having a dispute over the cost of magic weapons. The rules state that a weapon must have a +1 enhancement bonus to gain a special ability which means that the weapon must already be enchanted, or so my fellow player states. This means that if you wish to create or have created a holy longsword it would cost 18,315 gold pieces because the sword would carry a +3 enhancement bonus. My position is that the weapon must be of masterwork quality which gives a +1 enhancement bonus as stated on pg. 149 of the manual so a holy longsword would cost 8315 gold pieces.
It seems that you would have to be around level 7 before you could ever really afford anything past +1.
Well, what is the consensus?