I am unaware of such errata. As written, you'd have to throw your bow at the enemy. (This is silly; therefore, I recommend ignoring it if possible.)
I’m not sure where you were looking. It specifically says that it’s placed on a ranged weapon?
Price +1 bonus
Aura strong divination; CL 12th; Weight —DESCRIPTION
This special ability can only be placed on ranged weapons. A seeking weapon veers toward its target, negating any miss chances that would otherwise apply, such as from concealment. The wielder still has to aim the weapon at the right square. Arrows mistakenly shot into an empty space, for example, do not veer and hit invisible enemies, even if they are nearby.
CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, true seeing; Cost +1 bonus
I’m not sure where you were looking. It specifically says that it’s placed on a ranged weapon?
Yes, and a bow is classified as a ranged weapon while arrows are classified as ammunition. So, are you trying to say that, because this ability can. RAW, only be placed on a bow (and not the arrows it uses), it must definitely pass its ability to arrows fired by it?
The enchantment goes on the bow, itself, as the bow is a ranged weapon, and thus qualifies for the only on ranged weapons part of the enchantment.
The arrows do the seeking, as the enchantment even mentions arrows as a specific example of what this enchantment is meant to and can do.
+2 Seeking bows are pretty standard equipment, even as loot.
Out of all the poorly written pieces on content out there, this enchantment is actually really straightforward and does exactly as it says it does.
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I don't consider it any more powerful than putting it on a chakram and wearing a blinkback belt--hence my advice to ignore it if you're the GM.
I’m not sure where you were looking. It specifically says that it’s placed on a ranged weapon?Yes, and a bow is classified as a ranged weapon while arrows are classified as ammunition. So, are you trying to say that, because this ability can. RAW, only be placed on a bow (and not the arrows it uses), it must definitely pass its ability to arrows fired by it?
Yes I am saying that. I don't have ultimate equipment but the core rules seems to say that you place the enhancement on the bow. In fact "this special ability can only be placed on ranged weapons."
It has never been any doubt, for me or any player I came in contact with, that Seeking works on projectile weapons and allows the shot ammunition to seek its target. Anything else would be jumping through hoops to deify a printing error.
As a GM, if I ever find Seeking too powerful, to the point of having all players suddenly creating archers, I will not go online and whine to have a FAQ reducing its effectiveness. I will have enemies using it against the PCs (who will adapt, no doubt), and also find ways to reduce its effectiveness in-game (by bringing the fight up close and personal, for instance).
As a player, I would not cry about it, even if my character seems seriously underpowered in comparison to an OP archer. The game is a game, and its goal is that everybody spends a good time. If I don't spend a good time, I'll mention it to the others (out of the game itself). If they don't get the message, I go find another group, or play something else.
It probably doesn't apply to bows because of the way that ranged attacks with bows increase exponentially with the addition of things such as Rapid Shot and Multi-shot. So, yeah. You seem to need to enchant the arrow, which is quite expensive for a one hit item and thus impractical.
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So to summarise.
On one hand we have years of people applying the Seeking enhancement to bows rather than ammunition both on home games and PFS, official items such as the Windreader's Bow, the Daikyu of Commanding Presence, the Crossbow of Retribution, official creatures such as the Eygreas or the Shadow Cleric and, last but not least, common sense...
...on the other we have a missing subscript, most probably a mistake.
I wonder which one of the two makes the strongest point.
Link from above to John Compton's statement.
With PF2 incoming, this is the only errata we;ll ever receive.
And it only really matters if this is a PFS or similar campaign. Otherwise the final arbiter as always is the DM.
PFS clarified that seeking works on bows, etc.
I am unaware of such errata. As written, you'd have to throw your bow at the enemy. (This is silly; therefore, I recommend ignoring it if possible.)
Adding that to my houserules Doc now.
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The clarification about ammunition is about material equivalents, like Cold Iron and the like for the + bonus scale. The arrows likely need to be the different materials or have the +bonus equivalents themselves. Seeking and other stuff, like Bane, can still be put on a bow and will work with the arrows it shoots.