Can I Still Move / Attack If I Let Loose A Feather Token: Whip

[Jim Hale]

This came up a few games ago where I released a FT:W and was told I could do nothing else but control the whip. I thought a dancing weapon worked on it's own accord.

I also remember seeing someone post a 'sequence of events' for Retrieving/Activating/OnGoing Actions of using this item but can't find it anymore.

Any help would be appreciated. :) I carry 2 of these but have not used them because I thought I couldn't do anything else.

Thanks! :)

[Kalridian]

It works as a dancing weapon. Dancing weapons attack on their own.
You spend one standard action to use the feather token, after this, starting right away in the round you used it in, it works completely on it's own.
With the stats of the weapon in relation to the price, this is hardly gamebreaking. If you had to direct it with a full action every round, it would cost MORE actions than attacking on your own. That would be pretty sucky for a 500 gp one-use-item. Also, there is no rules text, neither in the dancing property nor in the text for the feather token, that supports the claim of you having to invest actions.
The GM might have confused it with the spell spiritual weapon, which needs a move action to be redirected to a new target, but even that does not need a full action.