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Have to wait until level 6. The two features have the same name but they are not the same ability and therefore do not count as each other. This kind of name overlap happens often. Just pretend that Paizo's Design crew has better imagination when it comes to naming things, and treat them as two different abilities with different names.
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If a sohei has weapon training in a weapon, it can use flurry of blows with that weapon. It doesn't specify where the weapon training has to come from. Maybe you think it should, but it doesn't.
But another FAQ does specify that abilities are written as single class. You are expanding this to work in a multi class character.
This exact question comes up about once every two months and often gets back and forth discussion. If you take the stance that it does work, then you are not likely to appreciate the implications of the single class ruling.
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And that's not in question and irrelevant. A sohei 6/fighter X can flurry with any of its weapon groups and the weapon training stacks for bonus value purposes since sohei training is fighter training.
It certainly is question in this thread since it is asking about "sohei 1 fighter 2" not "sohei 6 fighter 2".
At 6th level, the Sohei receives Weapon Training as the fighter class feature.
At 6th level, the Sohei may use flurry of blows and ki strike with any weapon in which he has weapon training.
IMHO: A Sohei 1/Fighter 2 has Weapon Training. But such a character cannot flurry with weapons from Weapon Training until Sohei 6th level.
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I am like 90% sure that, no, a Sohei 1/Fighter 2 does not have Weapon Training.
- A Sohei 1/Fighter (Weapon Master) 3 would have Weapon Training I (but only in a single weapon), but couldn't flurry with it.
- A Sohei 6/Fighter (Weapon Master) 3 would have Weapon Training II (again, only in a single weapon) AND could flurry with it. This can be circumvented with Martial Versatility, but is still a feat tax.
- A Sohei 6/Fighter (no archetype) 5 would get Weapon Training II, and could flurry with weapons from either weapon group they choose.
Weapon Training is the same ability, except the Monk one also tacks on the ability to flurry/use ki strikes with that weapon. The only contention here is that, instead of level 4 (as a Weapon Master Fighter 3/Sohei 1), you need to be a BARE MINIMUM of level 9 to pull this off.
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You would have to be a minimum of Sohei-6/Fighter-5 (or Sohei-6/Weapon Master-3) for this to work.
The two abilities stack, allowing you to Flurry with different weapon groups eventually, because the Sohei ability references the Fighter ability.
This stance is supported by the Myrmidarch FAQ (already referenced) the Class Features FAQ ("If the archetype ability says it works like the standard ability, it counts as that ability"), and by SKR's philosophy that "abilities should either be distinctly the same, or distinctly different".
But, obviously, people disagree.
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You get a class feature when you get it. A sohei 1 weapon master fighter 2 has no weapon training at all, as the only get weapon training as fighter 3.
A sohei 1 weapon master 3 has weapon training with one weapon, but they cannot flurry with it because they did not get weapon training from sohei, and it is the sohei weapon training that alters flurry.
A sohei 6 weapon master 3 has weapon training 2 with a single weapon, and weapon training 1 with whatever group they took with sohei, and can flurry with both that weapon, and the sohei weapon group.
I was assuming some kind of archetype to allow Weapon Training at Fighter level 2. Reviewing, there is no such archetype. Closest is Fighter (Weapon Master) which Imbicatus identified.
I agree with Imbicatus' comment: you get a class feature when you get it.
However, a Fighter (Weapon Master) does not have the standard Weapon Training ability. Instead they have a specific ability (replacing Armor Training) that mimics the standard Weapon Training, but for one weapon only. It progresses every 4 levels after 3rd, to a maximum of +5 at 19th level.
The Sohei Weapon Training appears at level 6, and progresses to an extra weapons group and +2/+1 at 12th, to the maximum 3 weapon groups at +3/+2/+1 at 18th.
Given the disparate progressions, and the non-standard Weapon Master Weapon Training class feature, the question is, do these stack? I think RAW these have to be maintained as separate pools of Weapon Training that do not stack, but the balance issue is not huge.
Consider - no stacking:
Fighter (Weapon Master) 7/Sohei Monk 7 would then have
F(WM) Weapon Training (one weapon only) +2
SM Weapon Training (one group of weapons) +1 - able to flurry
Stacking F(WM) 7/SM 7:
F(WM) Weapon Training (one weapon only) +3 - able to flurry
SM Weapon Training (one group of weapons) +2 - able to flurry
Starting split level results assuming stacking:
Fighter (Weapon Master) 3/Sohei Monk 6
F(WM) Weapon Training (one weapon only) +1 +1 = +2 - able to flurry
SM Weapon Training (one group of weapons) +1 - able to flurry
This progesses to either:
F(WM) 14/SM 6
F(WM) Weapon Training (one weapon only) +3 +1 = +4 - able to flurry
SM Weapon Training (one group of weapons) +1 - able to flurry
Or to:
F(WM) 3/SM 17
F(WM) Weapon Training (one weapon only) +1 +2 = +3 - able to flurry
SM Weapon Training (one group of weapons) +2 - able to flurry
SM Weapon Training (2nd group of weapons) +1 - able to flurry
IMO: Not a very powerful combination at either end of the spectrum.
As mentioned in that unholy mess, my view is that the weapon training abilities are functionally the same, but the ability to flurry with weapon training is part and parcel of the sohei 6 weapon training ability.
Once you hit sohei 6 flurry away to your hearts content with your fighter 2 weapon training.