Overcoming Damage resistance and the Bane enchantment

[Tholas]

From the Bane enchantment description:

PFRPG Beta wrote:

Against its designated foe, its effective enhancement bonus is +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus.

From the description I'd say that such a weapon would also bypass damage reduction against its designated foes like it was +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus. But what happens if you fight a designated foe with eg. DR 10/- with a +4, bane weapon? You'd be touching epic territory here but there are no rules how and if a +6 or higher weapon would overcome epic DR.

My shot at overcoming epic DR: -2 to epic DR for every enhancement bonus over +5. So a +7 weapon would ignore the first 4 points of epic DR an enemy might have.

[Galnörag]

Tholas wrote:

From the Bane enchantment description:

PFRPG Beta wrote:

Against its designated foe, its effective enhancement bonus is +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus.

From the description I'd say that such a weapon would also bypass damage reduction against its designated foes like it was +2 better than its normal enhancement bonus. But what happens if you fight a designated foe with eg. DR 10/- with a +4, bane weapon? You'd be touching epic territory here but there are no rules how and if a +6 or higher weapon would overcome epic DR.

My shot at overcoming epic DR: -2 to epic DR for every enhancement bonus over +5. So a +7 weapon would ignore the first 4 points of epic DR an enemy might have.

I guess I thought nothing overcame #/- DR even epic weapons don't?

That being said a Weapon crafted to slay a specific foe seems in the spirit that it would over come any DR that creature had.

[quest-master]

The Pathfinder rules about enhancement bonus overcoming certain types of DR synergize with the bane property.

DR/-- and DR/epic may still be a pain but most foes you'll go up against have DR that can now be overcome by the effective enhancement bonus of a bane weapon (bonus + bane bonus, minimum +3).

+3 vs. cold iron/silver
+4 vs. adamantine
+5 vs. alignment-based

A +1 bane weapon already bypasses DR/cold iron and DR/silver against the designated type of foe.

[Zaister]

There seems to be some confusion here. DR x/- and DR x/epic are different things. DR x/epic is overcome by weapons that have an enhancement bonus of at least +6. DR x/- cannot be overcome by any kind of weapon.

[primemover003]

In 3.5 without the Epic Level Handbook the only way to beat a DR x/Epic (the Tarrasque and Solar) is to have the appropriate Bane Weapon. So a +4 or +5 Bane Weapon will beat Epic DR against it's chosen foe.

If PF comes up with Epic Material then I'm sure they'll come up with the appropriate mechanics.

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