I've got a question about the Blade Adept, and more precisely on his exploit, the Eldritch blade. Here's the rule.
Eldritch Blade: A blade adept with this exploit uses her caster level instead of her class level for the purpose of advancing her bonded sword's powers.
I'm a little confused on what they wanted to do here.
1. Do you use your arcanist caster level with potential increased from prestige class and feats ?
2. Do you use you highest caster level (viva SLA!) ?
3. Something else ?
The second option doesn't seem to be quite right, as you could just take 3 levels of arcanist to have your shiny intelligent blade for every level.
Still, it's unclear, and I'm not totally sure it's quite the cheese move.
Any input ?
It's primarily to allow Arcanists who take it to take prestige classes like Eldritch Knight or Hellknight Signifier and progress their Black Blade at the same time. Because let's face it, you're not going to be using that sword any time soon if you stick with a 1/2 BAB class.