I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Most people think you can threaten at multiple ranges with longspear and armor spikes or similar, as long as you're not using them for two-weapon fighting. (And if you are two-weapon fighting, using two non-light weapons that can't attack the same opponent is a pretty impractical way to do it.)
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Spear Dancing Style (Combat, Style)
You can use polearms and spears as double weapons.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 13, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Benefit(s): Choose one weapon from the polearm or spear fighter weapon groups. While using this style, you grant the chosen weapon the double special weapon feature, using the weapon's normal statistics for its main-hand end and the statistics of a light mace for its off-hand end.
A weapon wielded in this way loses the brace and reach special weapon features.
Special: A character with the weapon training (polearms or spears) class feature can use Spear Dancing Style with any polearm or spear, respectively, in addition to the chosen weapon.
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Spear Dancing Spiral (Combat)
You wield spears with poise and grace.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 15, Spear Dancing Style, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Benefit(s): While using Spear Dancing Style, you gain the benefit of Weapon Finesse with the chosen weapon if it is appropriately sized for a creature of your size category. In addition, you can use any feat or ability that functions with a quarterstaff with your chosen weapon.
Your longspearspear lose the reach ability, so no no, you don't "become a crazy reach monster".
and you still need Weapon Focus (quarterstaff) to qualify for Quarterstaff Master.
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Note that Quarterstaff Master say:
"When you wield it as a one-handed weapon, your other hand is free, and you cannot use the staff as a double weapon."
and Spear Dancing Style say:
"you grant the chosen weapon the double special weapon feature"
As you are trading away the double weapon feature I would say that you aren't using Spear Dancing Style. The combat styles rules don't say anything about that, so this is a houserule.
If you're in stance you are using the style, and there is nothing stopping a player from using only one end of a double weapon.
The fact also stands that using two spears will incur much harsher TWF peneltys than using a single spear as a double weapon, so there isn't much reason to prevent a player from using the combination, when power isn't a concern
Once the reach bit got shot down, there was 0 reason to use two spears anymore.
With Spiral, this weapon is already a double weapon that can be finessed. That is practically the king of TWF. The ability to go between TWF adn 2 handed is a major advantage.
The only thing that I am left wondering about is whether the weapon's enhancement bonus is applied to both ends (since you normally can't enhance the other end of a spear, since it isn't a double weapon). If that is the case, then this is already giving people a hell of a lot without having to give you reach based TWF (which, for the amount of feats needed to go for that silly path, you might as well grab whips and the feats needed to make those lethal)
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Don't forget about the existence of Spear Dancing Reach...
You can strike from afar with double weapons.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 17, Spear Dancing Spiral, Spear Dancing Style, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Benefit(s): While using Spear Dancing Style and making a full attack using the chosen weapon as a double weapon, you can grant the reach special weapon feature to one or both of the weapon's ends until the end of your turn as a swift action.
Now it's a reach weapon...A feat intensive and expensive reach weapon that can only be used in full attacks and uses up your swift action, but a reach weapon.
The only thing that I am left wondering about is whether the weapon's enhancement bonus is applied to both ends (since you normally can't enhance the other end of a spear, since it isn't a double weapon). If that is the case, then this is already giving people a hell of a lot without having to give you reach based TWF (which, for the amount of feats needed to go for that silly path, you might as well grab whips and the feats needed to make those lethal)
This I think is the real question.
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Don't forget about the existence of Spear Dancing Reach...
You can strike from afar with double weapons.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 17, Spear Dancing Spiral, Spear Dancing Style, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Benefit(s): While using Spear Dancing Style and making a full attack using the chosen weapon as a double weapon, you can grant the reach special weapon feature to one or both of the weapon's ends until the end of your turn as a swift action.
Now it's a reach weapon...A feat intensive and expensive reach weapon that can only be used in full attacks and uses up your swift action, but a reach weapon.
A reach weapon that cannot be used for reach AoOs. Really, Spear Dancing Reach is just costing a swift action for lunge without an AC penalty. You'd be better off just taking Lunge.
I would assume both ends have the same enhancement bonus in this case, as while it ACTS as a double weapon, it is not actually a double weapon.
Though it could be ruled that the light mace portion of the weapon is not enchanted as it is an effect of a feat, not a property of the weapon, which is what makes a weapon a double weapon. And, all double weapons have each end enchanted separately.
Ahhh the complexities of gaming, gotta love it!
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And, all double weapons have each end enchanted separately.
Spinning Lance (Ex): At 7th level, a dragoon may alternate attacks with the piercing head of his lance with reach, or with the butt end (treat as a club) against adjacent targets. Unlike a double weapon, the masterwork quality and magical special abilities apply to both ends of the lance, except for those weapon special abilities that apply only to edged weapons. This ability replaces armor training 2.
I think this is supposed to work like Dragoon and apply the magic of the weapon to both ends. As written, it does not.
Well, bless my bark, that is rather a useful class ability for this particular discussion, gorram it, now I want to try out this build for the hell of it.
(I had completely forgotten that archetype existed, thanks for the reminder)
(I do need a good villain for the upcoming second chapter of my house game, hmmmmmmm, evil idea brewing!)
A reach weapon that cannot be used for reach AoOs. Really, Spear Dancing Reach is just costing a swift action for lunge without an AC penalty. You'd be better off just taking Lunge.
Well, you could take both, which would lead to a full 45' wide circle where you can full attack.
Making it easier to full attack when you are a TWF style user is fine. Not something I would take instead of lunge, but something I might pick much later on as a compliment to it.
Phalanx Soldier archetype lets you use spears one handed when using a shield.
A bracer counts as a shield.
You can still use a weapon in the hand that has the bracer on that arm, at a -1 to hit.
Maybe this will help you on your way...
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Don't forget about the existence of Spear Dancing Reach...
You can strike from afar with double weapons.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 17, Spear Dancing Spiral, Spear Dancing Style, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Benefit(s): While using Spear Dancing Style and making a full attack using the chosen weapon as a double weapon, you can grant the reach special weapon feature to one or both of the weapon's ends until the end of your turn as a swift action.
Now it's a reach weapon...A feat intensive and expensive reach weapon that can only be used in full attacks and uses up your swift action, but a reach weapon.
The only thing that I am left wondering about is whether the weapon's enhancement bonus is applied to both ends (since you normally can't enhance the other end of a spear, since it isn't a double weapon). If that is the case, then this is already giving people a hell of a lot without having to give you reach based TWF (which, for the amount of feats needed to go for that silly path, you might as well grab whips and the feats needed to make those lethal)This I think is the real question.
It don't work with quartestaff mastery as it say:L
"When you wield it as a one-handed weapon, your other hand is free, and you cannot use the staff as a double weapon.".- * - * -
Phalanx Soldier archetype lets you use spears one handed when using a shield.
A bracer counts as a shield.
You can still use a weapon in the hand that has the bracer on that arm, at a -1 to hit.
Maybe this will help you on your way...
Bracer?
Where you have found a bracer beside the magical bracers, in Pathfinder? And where it say that it work as a shield?
Maybe you mean a buckler.
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Phalanx Fighting (Ex): At 3rd level, when a phalanx soldier wields a shield, he can use any polearm or spear of his size as a one-handed weapon. This ability replaces armor training 1.
That open the usual can of worms about "wielding" something, but I doubt you can claim that you are wielding a buckler when you are wielding a weapon with that hand.
Sorry, I did mean buckler. You are allowed to use the buckler and still have a weapon, it's right there in the text about the buckler...
Sorry, I did mean buckler. You are allowed to use the buckler and still have a weapon, it's right there in the text about the buckler...Yes, but you lose the AC bonus from the buckler when you do. If you are not receiving the AC bonus from the buckler, you are not "wielding" it.
If that's the case, then my suggestion was a waste of time.
*shrugs*
Apologies.
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So Spear Dancing Spiral allows for you to use quarterstaff feats for the spear. Quarterstaff Master allows you to use a quarterstaff one-handed. That means that with the appropriate feats, you can use a spear in one hand, no? Does that mean that you can dual-wield two-handed spears?
Does that mean you can have a longspear in one hand and a regular spear in the other, and become a crazy reach monster?
I think I just realized the true benefit to Spear Dancing Spiral's quarterstaff line: Perfect Strike. You can use Perfect Strike with a high-crit polearm like the nodachi to have a almost guaranteed crit.