Arcane Bond + Disposible / splintering weapon?

[Murdock Mudeater]

Just tinkering with concepts. Any reason I can't acquire an arcane bond with the fragile weapon property?

Splintering Weapon and Disposible Weapon are feats specific to fragile weapons, which allow the weapon to incur the broken property in exchange for additional affects against a single target. Splintering Weapon adds bleed damage and Disposible Weapon allows an automatic confirmation of critical hits. Arcane Bonded weapons automatically repair themselves each day, so there is some obvious synergy here, even if the application is essentially limited to once per day.

Granted that even the best wizard combat wizard is unlikely be using their bonded weapon as a weapon constantly (that's what spell are for...), so having a True Strike prepared and the Disposible/splintering weapon feat, the wizard would very likely hit, and if a critical or just a regular hit, I could apply one of these feats to ensure extra effect.

[Kazaan]

Bonded weapons are always masterwork and masterwork voids the fragile property. No dice.

[Blindmage]

Depends on the material, some materials need to be magically hardened, and masterwork won't get rid of the Fragile quality, bone, for instance.

[Kazaan]

Then I guess it depends on whether a bonded weapon counts as "magical" automatically. It's a Supernatural ability meaning it's inherently magical. Also, there's this line:

PRD wrote:

... while a bonded object is an item a wizard can use to cast additional spells or to serve as a magical item.

I'd say that pretty much defines a bonded weapon as de facto magical (which is why it is always masterwork because only masterwork items can be magical).

[Blindmage]

I'd say once it becomes enchanted as a magical item, as you do with Bonded Objects, then it won't be fragile, but in theory, you could keep it at that starting, I modified level. Bonded objects don't radiated magic with Detect Magic, as far as I'm aware, until the above enchantments are made.

[Gisher]

Blindmage wrote:

I'd say once it becomes enchanted as a magical item, as you do with Bonded Objects, then it won't be fragile, but in theory, you could keep it at that starting, I modified level. Bonded objects don't radiated magic with Detect Magic, as far as I'm aware, until the above enchantments are made.

Actually...

FAQ wrote:

Arcane Bond: Can you identify an item that is the subject of an arcane bond from a wizard with detect magic or a similar affect, even if the item contains no other enchantments?

Since the arcane bond class feature, when tied to an item, grants a wizard the ability to cast any one spell, it is safe to assume that it does radiate magic when it is the subject of detect magic. The aura power would be directly related to the highest level spell it could be used to cast, but there would be no school associated with the item unless it was further enchanted.