Is it possible to have a +1 weapon with +9 worth of special abilities? Or is it limited to +5 enhancement bonus and +5 worth of special abilities?
YOU'RE NOT THERE YOU'RE GETTING DRUNK!
Also, fairly certain it's +5/+5. I'd much rather just have a +10 hit/dmg weapon tbh.
You can do it. I think the only hard limit on the +10 total is that the +5 enhancements, not special abilities, can't go past +5.
I stand corrected.
Not sure why you'd want to do that, however.
+1 disruption holy undead bane speed ghost touch silver warhammer. when you fight evil undead, that badboy comes to life (against evil undead its a +3 weapon that deals 4d6 extra damage per hit and they have to make a dc 14 will save or be destroyed. not much of a dc, but for every hit of a speed weapon? sheer number of saves will bring down even the toughest undead. plus it works against incorporal. what's not to like?)
EDIT: it's not much good against ogres. and it's not a knife. i think i may just have failed... unless a +1 ogre bane vorporal keen wounding dagger is the answer you're looking for?
if you're a gestalt paladin/magus you can even put much more things on that weapon. And if that isn't enough, put all that on a shield (As a weapon) and +10 abilities worth on the shield as armor.
Indeed, I'm surprised people haven't picked up on the sheer broken potential of the light and heavy shields and the shield-bash tree.
+5 enhancement bonus to AC then the Bashing Enchantment to up the shield-bash damage, plus other tasty defensive abilities, then go in again and add +1 enhancement bonus, then stack up the elemental, holy, vicious and other shenanigans and you have an item that is damn near artefact-like in terms of sheer power, both offensively and defensively.
A +5 Bashing Spell Resistance (17) Heavy Steel Shield with +1 Flaming Frost Ghost Touch Shock Holy Speed enchantments on it .... damn near broken to hell.
You'd need to be pimping Wyrm Gold Dragons to pull it off, however....
The Broken-ness continues to build if you have a friend with an Allying weapon who can spot you a +5 enhancement bonus (remembering the Allying enchantment does not stack with your existing +1 enchantment). The the large Steel Shield goes from deal 1d8+1 + HILARIOUS AMOUNTS OF CHEESE to 1d8+5 + THE CHEESE, and increases the Hit % again.
Then again if the GM is allowing you this sort of smoothering cheesy goodness, likely as not his NPCs have similar items ....
+5 Furious Bane furious being one my of favorite patches for the barbarian.
if you're a gestalt paladin/magus you can even put much more things on that weapon.
Errata says that the weapon still caps at a +10 total. I dislike that errata, since it weakens these classes and opens more questions that didn't get addressed.
Agreed, it is a decidedly lethal combination. Another is a +5 Holy Vicious weapon, for when you absolutely must !@#$ something up. Nothing short of DR something/- can stop it, and there is a guaranteed 4d6 extra damage to the enemy at a mere 1d6 to yourself for every hit that connects.
To avoid cheesing, most times I've GMed it's been a very specific weapon, such as the Martyr's Blade, a +5 Keen Holy Vicious Mithril Bastard Sword that could only activate the Vicious ability once the wielder (who had to be Good to begin with) smeared the blade with his own blood drawn by that of an Evil-aligned creature. The Paladin in that game ended up just about demolishing a Pit Fiend almost on her own with the damn thing.
Agreed, it is a decidedly lethal combination. Another is a +5 Holy Vicious weapon, for when you absolutely must !@#$ something up. Nothing short of DR something/- can stop it, and there is a guaranteed 4d6 extra damage to the enemy at a mere 1d6 to yourself for every hit that connects.
Epic and Vorpal are the hardest to bypass,but it can be via some artifacts, apropiate bane, Inquisitors , Barbarians with +4 furious or better, Rangers with the Instant Enemy + Bane weapon exploit, etc.
Maybe some are a little bit cheesy, but in some cases it work moreas patch (Ranger and barbarian) or are excplicity intended (Inquisitor and Magus).
Humbly,
Yawar
Agreed, it is a decidedly lethal combination. Another is a +5 Holy Vicious weapon, for when you absolutely must !@#$ something up. Nothing short of DR something/- can stop it...
Depending on what kind of weapon you are using DR/bludgeoning, DR/piercing, or DR/slashing would be able to stop it. :P