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Well I guess so. There's the occasional wraith encounter. And shadows too. I try have magic wpn by sixth level or so, as applying oils gets tedious after a while and there's nothing quite like not getting hit by incorporeal touch attacks or a gargoyle's full attack.
I find the added hardness and hp nifty as well. Rust monsters, caryatid columns, babaus, all kinds of things target weapons.
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I suspect that you can have a character go from level 1-12 with a regular non-magic weapon and have little to no trouble.If you're really looking for a challenge you could always test that theory.Looking at stats for a random 5-9 scenario, the first encounter in the scenario has an AC of 21 (in both tiers). If you're a barbarian or fighter (other other martial class) With let's say a strength mod of +3 (not at all in over optimization territory) in low tier you would need to roll a 12/13 to hit, while high tier one would need a roll of 9/10 depending on level.
This is before any other equipment, charging, or flanking bonuses. I'm not really sure it would be that much harder. ;)
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Regardless, I'm not saying there aren't some easy encounters. But many of the people I see complaining about the ease of PFS in the fora are the same people talking in other threads about how they like to optimize their characters. I don't think I've ever seen someone test this by making a purposely un-optimized combat character and seeing how they do. Of course for a real test, you'd need a full party building their characters for this purpose.
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Eh, I guess I'm a pretty decent case for average. Only started playing PF (and DnD in general) for PFS, and although I try and make characters effective they invariably aren't anywhere near Powergamer levels.
For me, I have not found most games to be too hard, but neither have I found most to be walk overs. There were definitely some hairy moments, and in the same way there were some scenarios we walked (whether due to luck or writing who knows!)
I guess my point is just that on average the game difficulty is average if you are average :)
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I suspect that you can have a character go from level 1-12 with a regular non-magic weapon and have little to no trouble.If you're really looking for a challenge you could always test that theory.
I have a character who reached level 13 without having a magic weapon. Never mind the fact that he is a casting-based cleric who never used the few daggers that he owns...
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Step 3... Bard D-Doors Gunslinger and Cleric to safe spot. Cleric heals all three, applies oil of bless weapon to gun.
FYI bless weapon cast on a projectile weapon doesn't confer the benefit to the ammunition.
Individual arrows or bolts can be transmuted, but affected projectile weapons (such as bows) don't confer the benefit to the projectiles they shoot.
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There seem to be a few season 5 mods where the writers are trying to TPK the players in the first round. "Elven Entanglement" certainly rises to the top of the septic tank.As the writer of that scenario and a GM who has seen PCs beat that encounter in one round on two occasions, I assure you the goal was not a TPK. The goal was a good time. It's kind of a bummer to hear so many players didn't get past that encounter in the scenario, especially when there are pretty regular "encounters are too easy" threads, like this one.
Ryan's encounter, as written, is unlikely to kill anyone on the first round, has a fair chance of killing a single character on the second round, and a fair chance of killing half the party by the end of the third round. I have never seen this encounter go past two rounds because of how obviously dangerous the encounter is. The PCs freak out and pull out every trick they had to finish the encounter of before it kills them. In that regard, I think this encounter is far scarier than it is deadly and to me that makes it a good encounter.