Does a Warpriest’s enhancement to Sacred Weapons stack with Fate’s Favored Trait?


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As part of a Warpriest’s Sacred weapon class feature, it says “At 4th level, the warpriest gains the ability to enhance one of his sacred weapons with divine power as a swift action. This power grants the weapon a +1 enhancement bonus.” My question is whether the Fate’s Favored Trait (whenever you are under the effect of a luck bonus of any kind, that bonus increases by 1) applies to this since it says this enhancement is via divine power. If we look at the description of the 4th level cleric spell Divine Power, it says that “You gain a +1 luck bonus on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, Strength checks, and Strength-based skill checks for every three caster levels you have (maximum +6).”
Does this mean that the luck bonus from Fate’s Favored Trait stacks with the enhancement to your sacred weapons, effectively giving you a +2 bonus on your sacred weapon at 4th level when you first gain this ability? This could turn a bit nasty if that is the case, since later it describes that “The warpriest can enhance a weapon with any of the following weapon special abilities: brilliant energy, defending, disruption, flaming, frost, keen, and shock. In addition, if the warpriest is chaotic, he can add anarchic and vicious. If he is evil, he can add mighty cleaving and unholy. If he is good, he can add ghost touch and holy. If he is lawful, he can add axiomatic and merciful. If he is neutral (with no other alignment components), he can add spell storing and thundering. Adding any of these special abilities replaces an amount of bonus equal to the special ability’s base cost.”
Does this mean that as a 4th level warpriest, you could add a +2 enhancement bonus to your sacred weapon like Vicious for a number of rounds equal to your warpriest level per day?


The "divine power" mentioned in the description is not the spell "Divine Power," as evidenced by the fact that it is not capitalized and the bonus is specifically called out as being an Enhancement Bonus.

So, no, Fates Favored does not interact with Sacred Weapon.


The type of bonus Sacred Wrapon gives you is called out as an enhancement bonus. Therefor Fate's Favored does not apply.

Simply being from a divine source does not mean that it is a luck bonus. Each spell describes what type of bonus the spell gives. For example, Shield of Faith could be seen as divine power, but gives a Deflection bonus


Woops. Apologies for my misinterpretation of how the enchantment bonus works for the sacred weapon. Thanks for all the replies!!! This was very useful.


Fate's Favoured is an attractive trait for a Warpriest because the spell Divine Favour gives a luck bonus. If you've seen it suggested, this is likely the reason.


born_of_fire wrote:
Fate's Favoured is an attractive trait for a Warpriest because the spell Divine Favour gives a luck bonus. If you've seen it suggested, this is likely the reason.

^this as well as any other spell that grants luck bonuses


With the warpriest's ability to self buff as a swift action Divine Favor and Divine Power become even better spells than they were to begin with.

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