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This is probably a simple question but I myself am unsure to the answer.
What exactly can augment your CMB and CMD? Besides what is already on the character sheet. I have heard Dodge bonuses and Luck bonuses affect CMD but what else? Armor enhancement bonuses? Magic rings/shields? And for CMB I have been told certain spell buffs affect the number (Bless, Bard Song, Good Hope, Haste etc.) but what about the enhancement bonus of your weapon for sunder/trip attempts? And weapon focus for that weapon? And what about Luck/competence bonuses to "Attack rolls", would those affect CMB?
If anyone has a good answer for this (And a location where it's written in the rules) I would be grateful
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Anything that boosts your attack rolls equally boosts your Combat Maneuver checks, because Combat Maneuver checks are attack rolls.
If you have, say, a +1 weapon, you'd also add that +1 to any Combat Maneuvers you perform with said weapon, such as Sunder, Trip, or Disarm (and possibly others).
Many bonuses to your AC also affect your CMD, although I don't have a link for which ones they are right now. Dodge, Deflection, Luck, and Insight definitely do, but can't think of them all right now.
EDIT: Found it...
A creature can also add any circumstance, deflection, dodge, insight, luck, morale, profane, and sacred bonuses to AC to its CMD. Any penalties to a creature's AC also apply to its CMD. A flat-footed creature does not add its Dexterity bonus to its CMD.
Oh wow, now I know why everyone else always has a massive CMD CMB over me. Also I just found something I am unsure about, I am asking about this specifically because I have a Barbarian who recently picked up Spell Sunder. As it is technically a Sunder combat maneuver I would receive my weapons enchantment bonus to the roll.
Then I found this, from UE page 140 Dispelling
A dispelling weapon functions like a spell storing weapon, but it may only store dispel magic; however, the caster level check to dispel gains an ADDITIONAL bonus equal to the weapon's enhancement bonus. This bonus also applies to a magus's dispelling strike arcana or a barbarians's spell sunder or sunder enchantment combat maneuver check.
Now this enchantment says Additional but I am unsure if it would stack with the enchantment bonus the Spell sunder CMB check would already receive from an enchanted weapon.
Am I thinking to hard about this? or can someone give me some clarification
Great!
Thank you for the quick answers Nefreet!
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Using total defence or fighting defensively can boost your CMD.
If you use Smite Evil on a evil target, the bonuses to attack and AC would also boost your CMB and CMD.
It is possible to make characters with extremely high CMB in a particular Combat Maneuver. This can be done by stacking the bonuses from feats, weapons enchantments, and items.
So much so that such characters can succeed on a Combat Maneuver check with even a roll of 2.