At 4th level, when a kensai hits with his chosen weapon, he can spend 1 point from his arcane pool in order to maximize his weapon damage. Don’t roll for damage—the weapon deals maximum damage. This affects only the weapon’s base damage dice, not additional damage from sneak attack, magical weapon properties, spellstrike, or critical hits.
When you use the attack action, you can make one attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional damage. Roll the weapon’s damage dice for the attack twice and add the results together before adding bonuses from Strength, weapon abilities (such as flaming), precision-based damage, and other damage bonuses. These extra weapon damage dice are not multiplied on a critical hit, but are added to the total.
Would Perfect Strike maximize all the weapon dice from Vital Strike, or would it just maximize the first set? I suspect it's the latter, but I feel like it could be read to be the former.
Would Perfect Strike maximize all the weapon dice from Vital Strike, or would it just maximize the first set?
Vital Strike says they are "extra weapon damage dice" which implies they are not "base damage dice" and thus shouldn't be maximized.
Would Perfect Strike maximize all the weapon dice from Vital Strike, or would it just maximize the first set?Vital Strike says they are "extra weapon damage dice" which implies they are not "base damage dice" and thus shouldn't be maximized.
That makes sense.