Darksol the Painbringer wrote:
It's an obvious typo.
Our published version of the Mobile Fighter archetype in APG states that the Leaping Attack feature only reaplaces Weapon Training 1.
Looking at the D20PFSRD Website, it's obvious that the benefits aren't cumulative.
In addition, Reviewing the Buckler Duelist's similar Ability, it scales the same as the Mobile Fighter's ability; it's safe to assume that because they scale the same, the same level of class features should be exchanged.
On top of which, class feature chains that are replaced with the first rank means the character is unable to obtain that class feature at all; this clause from the Archetype descriptions supports this statement:
Class Archetypes wrote:
If an archetype replaces a class feature that is part of a series of improvements or additions to a base ability (such as a fighter's weapon training or a ranger's favored enemy), the next time the character would gain that ability, it counts as the lower-level ability that was replaced by the archetype.
The bolded part emphasizes that the Weapon Training would only accumulate if it was something you already had to begin with, and even if it did, it would scale to a rank you previously didn't have before that was replaced with another feature.
Also, since the Weapon Training bonuses to your attack and damage come from the same source (Class Features from archetypes of the same Core Class), they would not stack, as is appropriate with buffs and debuffs stacking. If we took 2 archetypes that had Weapon Training 1, this doesn't give you 2 ranks of Weapon Training; only one, since they are both the same thing.
the next time the character would gain that ability, it counts as the lower-level ability Wouldn't that make weapon training 2 simply act / behave / become Weapon Training 1 ?
Here is the full text for that quote.
If an archetype replaces a class feature that is part of a series of improvements or additions to a base ability (such as a fighter's weapon training or a ranger's favored enemy), the next time the character would gain that ability, it counts as the lower-level ability that was replaced by the archetype. In effect, all abilities in that series are delayed until the next time the class improves that ability. For example, if an archetype replaces a rogue's +2d6 sneak attack bonus at 3rd level, when she reaches 5th level and gains a sneak attack bonus, her sneak attack doesn't jump from +1d6 to +3d6—it improves to +2d6, just as if she had finally gained the increase at 3rd level. This adjustment continues for every level at which her sneak attack would improve, until at 19th level she has +9d6 instead of the +10d6 of a standard rogue.