Question about Advanced Weapon Training / Weapon Specialist

[Eizenfaust]

Just got a hold of the WMH and have a couple of quesitons regarding some stuff in it.

Does the Advanced Weapon Training option called Weapon Specialist scale along with your Weapon Training Bonus for the weapon group as you gain levels. IE- At level 9 the training bonus is +2 and so allows me to chose up to two feats to apply to the weapon group. At level 13 the bonus is now +3. Do I get to now add another applicable feat to that weapon group?

Thank you for your assistance.

[Cavall]

While it is vague I think due to the fact it says it picks out feats equal to that number, then if that number changes so do the feats.

So yes. Scales.

[Eizenfaust]

Exactly right on the vagueness of it. Someone told me by RAW that it wouldn't scale. But if that's the case then a fighter could take it as a fighter feat and retrain it. The retraining would update the effect. So it seems silly that it wouldn't.

[dragonhunterq]

It would be unusual if it didn't scale.
Pathfinder defaults to the underlying principle of retroactive application of effects, so that a character will have the same stats no matter in what order they apply those effects.
This means that a 20th level character who took weapon specialist by way of the feat(that grants AWT - whose specific name escapes me) at level 7 and a 20th level character who takes it at 17th level should have the same number of applicable feats.

[J Scot Shady]

I know this is an old thread, sorry to drag it up again. This answered ONE of my questions about this ability, or rather confirmed what I felt was correct, but I also have a second question about it Weapon Specialist.

As this isn't actually a feat, but seems to work like it (and it is gained to some degree from a feat), can you only select each option once? And if you CAN select each option more than once, are you limited to selecting a different weapon group each time?

For example, if I were to take weapon specialist at 9th level in Heavy Blades to allow the use of weapon focus and dazzling display with all heavy blades, could I also take weapon specialist in heavy blades again at 13th level? Basically allowing the character use weapon focus, weapon specialization, greater weapon focus, dazzling display, shatter defenses, and improved critical with all heavy blades?