PFS Intelligent Item Question

Hey as this is a character who specifically will be played in PFS I wanted to have the appropriate rabbit trail noted and printed out.
Specifically: Bladebound archetype- at level 3 I gain the black blade..now it is a +1 enhancement. As I gain more levels the enhancement grows. Now these bonuses will strictly be just enhancement correct? I can't instead make it keen permanently?
Now assuming my reading is right and it's only normal enhancement, what are the rules for upgrading an intelligent item? As in at level 4 I will have roughly 6k saved, what rules explain if I can add the keen ability to my +1 weapon? In reading the info on intelligent weapons they are just regular items but gain the intelligent quality. So if it's just a normal weapon then I can upgrade as normal, paying the appropriate gap costs?

I don't see any way to alter it into a +equivalent, its just the flat bonus.

Since the Black Blade’s stats are fully detailed in the chart, you can’t modify the weapon outside of using your Arcane Pool or spells.

The listed enhancement bonus, on the Black Blade’s table, is only an enhancement bonus and can’t be used to add special abilities such as keen to the weapon. This bonus does free up all of your Arcane Pool for special abilities at level 5.

could save up for a scabbard of keen edges, but that takes a while.

At 5th level you can use a point from your arcane pool to give it keen.

And there's always the keen edge spell.

Remember that the Bladebound Magus can still spend Arcane Pool points to give his weapon special properties once he reaches 5th level, including Keen.

Also remember that, including magical bonuses, no weapon can have a total enhancement bonus set higher than +10.

So, at 3rd & 4th level, the Bladebound Magus can m,ake his weapon a +2 weapon for 1 minute.

At 5th level, his Black lade becomes +2, and he can add an additional +2 worth of enhancements to it, either making it +4, +3 with a +1 bonus enhancement (Flaming, Frost or SHock, for example), or +2 with +2 worths of enhancements (Shock & Flaming, for example, or a +2 cost enhancement from the list)

And so on, until at 17th level or so, he has a +5 weapon with variable +5 worth of enhancements. Flexible and powerful.

So is there any method to, maybe through another item, apply the agility enhancement to my black blade? I assume not, but I can miss things... :)

So is there any method to, maybe through another item, apply the agility enhancement to my black blade? I assume not, but I can miss things... :)

Nothing i can see. The agility enhancement isn't on the magus' list, you can't make a blackblade out of an existing weapon ( a regular magus sadly COULD do this buy getting a +1 agile rapier and then augmenting its +s)

So, at 3rd & 4th level, the Bladebound Magus can make his weapon a +2 weapon for 1 minute.

If you are talking about Black Blade Strike (Sp), This is not an enhancement Bonus so does not count towards the max enhancements, and it is only a bonus to Damage.

Also, I could be missing it because I thought the same.. But I am not seeing anywhere in bladebound that you can add anything to the Enhancement, even the 5th level power only replaces to weapon damage with an elemental damage.

What am I missing because I swear you could.

I think this is what you're missing

I think this is what you're missing

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Yeah I was just looking at Bladebound, and not the actual class.

So is there any method to, maybe through another item, apply the agility enhancement to my black blade? I assume not, but I can miss things... :)

If you are using a scimitar you can use the Dervish Dance feat from the Inner Sea World Guide. Outside of that your pretty much out of luck getting Agile Weapon on your Black Blade.

Ok here is a follow up then. Obviously once it's intelligent I can't add anything to it (which I had assumed but wanted/hoped to check for miastakes). However, as I read through the sidebar it says that they may come into your possession...normally this means a black blade gets a free kick butt weapon but what if I purchase a +1 agile weapon and then take my 3rd level (filling with 2 fighter levels before). Would my magus not be able to use it for the blackblade? I know it may seem like a cheese thing, but I'm throwing down extra money to do this so it isn't without a cost.

Ok here is a follow up then. Obviously once it's intelligent I can't add anything to it (which I had assumed but wanted/hoped to check for miastakes). However, as I read through the sidebar it says that they may come into your possession...normally this means a black blade gets a free kick butt weapon but what if I purchase a +1 agile weapon and then take my 3rd level (filling with 2 fighter levels before). Would my magus not be able to use it for the blackblade? I know it may seem like a cheese thing, but I'm throwing down extra money to do this so it isn't without a cost.

1) It is your third level of Magus, not your third character level.

Now, having a spare blade, in the odd case of your black blade being out of it for some reason would be doable, but using an enchanted weapon as a black blade? I don't think so.

As mentioned up thread go with the feat Dervish Dance and use a scimitar, the feat lets you use your dex modifier to both hit and damage. And it has also been clarified that you can still use spell combat with the feat (as a spell is neither a weapon or a shield and those are the things you can not have in your off hand).