| JarlNuramon |
There is a problem with the way battle host is worded. I know that the wording of pathfinder's occult classes are really weird and sometimes not so clear but in this case I have trouble to believe that it should work like this.
The occultist archetype battle host has the class feature panoply bound. The class feature looks like this
At 1st level, a battle host forms a supernatural bond with a specific weapon, suit of armor, or shield. This selection is permanent and can never be changed. The bonded item is masterwork quality and the battle host begins play with it at no cost.
The bonded item is immune to the broken condition for as long as the battle host lives. If a battle host dies and is restored to life, the bonded item is also restored if it was destroyed. Any magic powers associated with a battle host’s bonded item function only for the battle host; in the hands of anyone else it is only a masterwork item. The bonded item starts as an implement for any single school of magic at 1st level, and gains access to additional schools of magic at 2nd, 10th, 14th, and 18th levels, granting the battle host access to base focus powers and resonant powers accordingly. The battle host’s bonded item serves as his implement component to cast occultist spells of all the schools that he knows.
However, he must split his mental focus among the schools he knows for the purpose of determining resonant powers and using focus powers, even though he possesses only one physical item as an implement.
This ability alters implements, mental focus, spellcasting, and implement mastery.
Here is the problem:
The bonded item starts as an implement for any single school of magic at 1st level, and gains access to additional schools of magic at 2nd, 10th, 14th, and 18th levels
The feature only alters so here is the problem with this wording. The class feature never mentions replacements of the implements at these levels and because of altering the second implement at level 1 and the implement at level 5 still exist and could be physical items which are just another implement item and not in the armour. I hope I made clear which part of this wording is confusing.
Also an example of what is allowed when you interpret this:
The PC "Korus" is a level one battle host and chose his panoply bound to be a full-plate with transformation but because of the strange wording that his second implement is not replaced he also takes a shield as his implement for abjuration. So he has two implement schools because it never mentioned through only altering the implement class features that he has only one implement.