Magic Item Creation questions

[ghostnote]

Hello,
Me and my party have a few doubts about Magic Item Creation. Here's our situation:
We fought an Erinyes and she dropped a +1 Flaming Composite Longbow. Our ranger wanted it to become a +2 Flaming Composite Longbow. How do we calculate the price? Here's our perspective, without considering the bow price.
So the original bow would cost 4000 golds to craft. If I were to craft a +2 Flaming Composite Longbow it would cost 9000 golds. Here's where our problem occurs. From what we get from the rulebook, it should cost 5000 golds (9000 minus 4000) to make this improvement. Is this correct? Or do we miss something? Thanks in advance for your answers.

[DM_Blake]

You got it exactly right. The price of the bow (masterwork, composite, etc.) doesn't matter for upgrading its enchantment. Just compare the enchantment prices (8,000 "base" price for +2, 18,000 "base" price for +3). The difference is 10,000 gp ("golds") as the "base" price to upgrade it. If you are doing the enchanting, you only pay half, but if someone else is doing it, he'll charge you the full 10,000gp.

Either way it will take 10 days to make this improvement (at 1,000gp per day on the full "base" price, not the craft price).

[_Ozy_]

You can cut the time in half by increasing the craft DC by +5.

[Meiliken]

_Ozy_ wrote:

You can cut the time in half by increasing the craft DC by +5.

Or not raising it and having 2 people working together on the crafting to half the crafting time. It was that way in 3.5, not sure if it's still that way in pathfinder. I'd think it would be logically, but eh, that's me.

[_Ozy_]

You need the cooperative crafting feat for this to work in Pathfinder, or have a valet Familiar.

[CampinCarl9127]

Yup, 5000 gold is correct. Your logic is sound and you missed nothing.