| Rerednaw |
I've been toying with Slayer build (melee and ranged) and was reading the Shatter Defenses feat.
Shatter Defenses (Combat)
Your skill with your chosen weapon leaves opponents unable to defend themselves if you strike them when their defenses are already compromised.
Prerequisites: Weapon Focus, Dazzling Display, base attack bonus +6, proficiency with weapon.
Benefit: Any shaken, frightened, or panicked opponent hit by you this round is flat-footed to your attacks until the end of your next turn. This includes any additional attacks you make this round.
Seems pretty straightforward, hit a feared (shaken not stirred/frightened/panicked) foe with a weapon your proficient with and they are treated as flat-footed.
While you have to be proficient with the weapon...it doesn't say that Weapon Focus has to be with that weapon...is that correct?
So a switch-hitter build with say WF: Bow could still get the effect of Shatter Defenses if he found himself in melee with say a club, that's he proficient with, but doesn't have Weapon Focus in so long as the target was still under a demoralize or similar effect.
Correct?
| Darksol the Painbringer |
RAW, that's how it would work.
RAI, I'm pretty sure the assumption is that the effect only works if you make attacks with a weapon you've selected with Weapon Focus.
That being said, if the situation (if I'm correct) is you're improvising your Bow as a melee weapon, the weapon being used is still a Bow, meaning Weapon Focus, and therefore Shatter Defenses, would still apply.