Legendary Item question

[Tangent101]

I've a question: Does the Legendary Item ability "Upgradable" stack with the Craft Magic Item Feat? I ask this as you can upgrade a magic item normally with CMI for half of what it costs to create the item. So would a Mythic Character with a Legendary Weapon with Upgradable AND the Craft Magic Item and Armor Feat thus get a further discount (thus instead of costing 3,000 gold to upgrade a weapon from +1 to +2, it's 1,500 gold?)

[Codanous]

I think the intent is to allow characters without the feat to upgrade their weapon at half cost however I don't see how the two abilities would stack.

Because the upgrade process is involved as a ritual which implies that during those 8 hours you are preforming rites and maybe doing dances where as the Magic item crafting rules state you have to physically work on them for the 1 day per 1000 gold cost.

I think because the item's ritual is done over an 8 hour ritual it wouldn't allow the proper time for the craft magic item feat to also take effect.

I could see some people explaining that the legendary dwarf blacksmith slaving over an anvil and oven to fold the metal half a hundred times and all that jazz is part of a ritual that also allows for the craft magic items feat but the feat specifically states it is 8 hours per 1000 gold.

[Tangent101]

Actually, just 8 hours period. No matter what the cost.

That in and of itself would likely make it worthwhile. Higher-level upgrades tend to take weeks to a month to pull off. This would allow someone to make a +5 sword with Bane, Flaming Burst, Keen, and other stuff (assuming the gold was available) in just eight hours.

Or, for that matter, a Belt of Physical Perfection +6; instead of a month of enchanting, eight hours.

Okay. Seems easily worthwhile now that I factor in the time benefit.

[Shoga]

The RAW of the Upgradeable option implies that once the item is legendary you cannot improve it with anything other than enhancement type bonus's.

"If the base magic item has a version with a higher bonus or greater version (such as a +1 longsword, a +2 light steel shield, a cloak of protection +1 , an amulet of mighty fists +1, or a minor ring of inner fortitude), the bonded creature can improve it by performing a special
ritual."

Special properties like keen, detect magic, etc.. doesn't apply.

[wintersrage]

i don't think that's the case, i think its any non mythic magical ability.

Upgradable This ability grants the bonded creature the ability to more easily increase the non-mythic magical power of the legendary item.