I'm looking to combine bracers but I don't know how this would work. My understanding is it is +50% cost (not sure if its the higher or lower priced item that is +50%).
The 2 items I'm looking to combine are below.
Bracers of the Avenging Knight
These silver bracers are polished to a mirrored sheen, but otherwise shift their appearance to match whatever suit of armor they are worn with.
If the wearer has levels in a class that grants a smite ability (such as a paladin, or a cleric with the Destruction domain), her smite damage is treated as though she were a member of that class four levels higher. If the wearer is not a member of such a class, once per day she may make one smite attack, gaining a bonus on the attack roll equal to her Charisma bonus, and a +5 bonus to the damage roll on a hit.
Silver Smite Bracelets
This heavy silver bracelet is etched with icons of purity, fidelity, chastity, and honor, and glows with a soft white light whenever its owner prays. The wearer of this bracelet treats her paladin level as 4 higher than normal for the purpose of her smite evil class feature.
A) Would these stack
B) The 50% would go onto the higher or lower item ? I haven't bought either of them yet.
A) No. Untyped bonuses stack, unless, and this is the important bit, the bonuses come from similar sources, which those do.
B) Lower, but you can't combine two magical items that you already have into one item. You can commission one custom magic item that has the combined properties of two magical items. The total cost is the higher cost plus the lower cost times 1.5.
These shouldn't stack even if you combined them into one item.
The both say "treats character level as 4 higher", so they do the exact same thing. Both would still only get you to the same effective level as one.
However, for combining effects the rule listed in the CRB is that the lower item's cost is increased by 50% and added to the price of the original.
Cheers guys.
I wasn't expecting A to be true, but you have to ask :)
Thanks for clarifying B) as I will probably be combining the lay on hands bracelets and smite bracelets instead.
Cheers again.
A) I don't believe they would. Although they are untyped bonuses they are nearly identical for a paladin and come from the same source. Definitely check with your GM
B)The price is determined by the order of the enchantments. If you can, enchant the more expensive version first, then the cheaper one.
"increase the cost of the new ability by 50%, add that to the total price of the item to get the new price."
I am pretty sure the Bracers of the Avenging Knight replaced the Silver Smite Bracelet. Note that the Silver Smite Bracelet is not in Ultimate Equipment, and the Bracers of the Avenging Knight do the same thing, only include some clerics and anti-paladins.
B)The price is determined by the order of the enchantments. If you can, enchant the more expensive version first, then the cheaper one.
"increase the cost of the new ability by 50%, add that to the total price of the item to get the new price."
This is a good point, and often overlooked. If you are making your item yourself, from scratch (or paying someone to do that for you), the crafter always creates the most expensive part first and the rest (less expensive stuff) gets the 50% price increase. Most items in the book that have two or more abilities work this way, and a crafter would be an idiot to make it the other way (that would increase his materials cost but not increase the sale price of the item) because "An item is only worth two times what the caster of the lowest possible level can make it for. Calculate the market price based on the lowest possible level caster, no matter who makes the item." (which implies that the sale price is a fixed value, no matter who makes it or at what cost they make it).
But if you are adding a power to something you already have, you no longer have the option of automatically making the most expensive power first, so the price markup always applies to the new powers, even if they're the most expensive power the (upgraded) item will have.