+2 Furious Courageous will count as a +4 weapon when raging which increase any morale bonus effects by +2
For further discussion, would the morale bonus go up if a friendly caster cast +4 Greater Magic Weapon? Would the Furious enchantment then increase the enhancement bonus to +6? If you were to trigger a Bane weapon enchantment, would that further increase the morale bonuses?
If you have greater magic weapon +4 which is enhancement bonus, it does not stack with any enhancement bonuses the weapon already has.
I vaguely recall something about magic weapons not able to exceed a certain bonus level, so it might just turn out to be +3 furious courageous. But don't quote me on this.
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Greater magic weapon grants the weapon itself an enhancement bonus with the caveat that it cannot bypass DR. Effects that reference a weapon's enhancement bonus can benefit from greater magic weapon.
In Pathfinder (unfortunately) GMW also counts against the total effective enhancement bonus of the item (so you have a +1 sword with +5 worth of special abilities, GMW cannot make its total higher than +10, but it's your best guess as to which ability trumps). Other effects such as a Paladin's weapon bond is pretty much the same. There was no such limitation in 3.x however (so if you found a +1 keen speed weapon, a +6 equivalent, you could make it a +5 keen speed weapon with GMW).
It's a pretty needless nerf to martials but it won't come up much in general because +10 weapons are never worth their cost anyway so you're better off just getting cheap +1 weapons with one or two special abilities.
When using a bane weapon (which ups the bonus by +2 vs a specific foe) the courageous weapon would be a little more potent during the attack (which might help if you're benefiting from heroism or something to get a teeny bit more accuracy during the hit).
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Greater magic weapon grants the weapon itself an enhancement bonus with the caveat that it cannot bypass DR. Effects that reference a weapon's enhancement bonus can benefit from greater magic weapon.
In Pathfinder (unfortunately) GMW also counts against the total effective enhancement bonus of the item (so you have a +1 sword with +5 worth of special abilities, GMW cannot make its total higher than +10, but it's your best guess as to which ability trumps). Other effects such as a Paladin's weapon bond is pretty much the same. There was no such limitation in 3.x however (so if you found a +1 keen speed weapon, a +6 equivalent, you could make it a +5 keen speed weapon with GMW).
It's a pretty needless nerf to martials but it won't come up much in general because +10 weapons are never worth their cost anyway so you're better off just getting cheap +1 weapons with one or two special abilities.
When using a bane weapon (which ups the bonus by +2 vs a specific foe) the courageous weapon would be a little more potent during the attack (which might help if you're benefiting from heroism or something to get a teeny bit more accuracy during the hit).
Rage bonuses are morale bonuses, which makes Courageous especially good for barbarians.
To clarify, I'll use the most outrageous example. Say you had a +1 Furious Courageous Human Bane sword, and you had your wizard buddy cast +4 Greater Magic Weapon. If you raged out and hit a human with this weapon, would you have a total effective +8 enhancement, and a +4 to any morale effects for the purposes of hitting that poor guy? (So your rage would give you 4 more strength, and your bard buddy would be granting an additional +4 weapon hit and damage, along with the huge weapon enhancement bonuses?)
Yep. It's pretty awesome. ^_^
So wait, guy with courageous +4 who gets +3 from bless, you tell me he gets +4 when using bane? Never thought they stack.
Sweet!