FAQ - Sentinel Prestige Class: Practiced Combatant

[DM Livgin]

The Practiced Combatant ability gives the Sentinel a +2 sacred or profane bonus on combat maneuvers performed with his deity’s favored weapon. The Sentinel's Symbolic Weapon ability gives a higher sacred or profane bonus to attack and damage rolls with his deity’s favored weapon. When making a combat maneuver with a weapon, any bonuses to attack rolls apply to the maneuver roll. As is the Practiced Combatant provides no bonus.

Is the bonus from Practiced Combatant intended to stack with the bonus from Symbolic Weapon?

[dragonhunterq]

linky

FAQ'd - as written practiced combatant does nothing, I'd allow it to stack though.

[Claxon]

Dragonhunterq is correct.

[Ascalaphus]

It's possible the writer forgot that maneuvers are attacks and that general attack bonuses also apply to maneuvers.

So the writer didn't mean for them to stack, and didn't realize both bonuses would apply and make the Practiced Combatant bonus irrelevant.

[DM Livgin]

Yep, something that may have slipped through during editing. But the Sentinel is getting a relatively high amount of play time in my area and I'd love to see some FAQ love for it.

Will need to make a second post for the Aligned Strike ability question.