Benefits of Smiting, Inquisitor

[Logan8054]

Hi Guys,

Looking for rules help on Inquisitor Smiting.

We recently played a session and had multiple takes or views on Smiting. Anyone really familiar with this feature could explain the rules with an example in various forms.

Also looking for the benefit of this per say vs Magus Arcane Pool which seems to be a similar but obviously different effect.

[AndIMustMask]

how exactly are they smiting?

[Logan8054]

AndIMustMask wrote:

how exactly are they smiting?

not quite sure what you mean, through class feature.

Smiting: This judgment bathes the inquisitor’s weapons in a divine light. The inquisitor’s weapons count as magic for the purposes of bypassing damage reduction. At 6th level, the inquisitor’s weapons also count as one alignment type (chaotic, evil, good, or lawful) for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction. The type selected must match one of the inquisitor’s alignments. If the inquisitor is neutral, she does not receive this bonus. At 10th level, the inquisitor’s weapons also count as adamantine for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction (but not for reducing hardness).

this is the gain, but we seem to have different takes on the meaning

[Captain Netz]

A lawful good inquisitor can use this judgement to ignore DR/Magic of anything he hits with his weapon.

A lawful good inquisitor at level 6 can align his weapon as either good or lawful in order to bypass DR/Good or DR/Lawful.

A neutral good inquisitor at level 6 can align his weapon as good in order to bypass DR/Good but can not align it as lawful because he does not have that alignment himself.

A lawful good inquisitor at level 10 can ignore DR/adamantine even though his weapon is not made form that material. However in the case where he is trying to damage an object, he does not get the bonus of ignoring the hardness (Items Damage resistance) that adamantine weapons usually grant. This can be useful if fighting golems as im pretty sure most if not all golems have DR/adamantine.

Hope that helps.

[AndIMustMask]

ah, i missed that. my bad. smiting judgment is alright if you run into things with DR, but otherwise it's not too interesting (and there are better options for main judgments, like justice or destruction). for regular use it makes a decent choice for second judgment when you get that at 8th.