Vicious? Whats the damage type to you and the enemy?

[caleb johnson]

I am trying to find a ruling on the magical weapon attribute "Vicious" as to what kind of energy damage it does to both you and the enemy. Also is it effect by DR?

[Stome]

Untyped and not effected by DR. There is flat out no way to avoid the damage. That's the point.

[Nefreet]

Combine it with Merciful =)

[Stome]

So for +2 you get a weapon that does 3d6 nonlethal damage (the rest of your damage is nonlethal damage as well) and 1d6 nonlethal to yourself.

While interesting and would have it uses in a full on nonlethal damage build its not very effective because of the limitations of nonlethal damage. But that might be just me. I do not like builds that are based on something easily hard counted by nothing other the enemy types. (like trip builds, Grapple builds and so on)

[Nefreet]

My paladin of Sarenrae in PFS is thinking of making such a weapon as a backup for when enemy capture is the primary mission focus (which comes up more than you'd think).