Making archaic weapons magic

[ZandrXI]

If you made a archaic weapon do magic damage with the mystic strike feat or the soldier arcane assailant fighting style would that weapon lose the -5 to damage and do full damage or would it still do 5 less?

[Dracomicron]

Archaic is not affected by magical status, to my knowledge.

A +5 Holy Avenger from Old Golarion still does -5 damage (net +0) to enemies with modern armor.

[ZandrXI]

Dracomicron wrote:

Archaic is not affected by magical status, to my knowledge.

A +5 Holy Avenger from Old Golarion still does -5 damage (net +0) to enemies with modern armor.

well that sucks thanks for the info.

[Metaphysician]

While its true that mystic strike and such don't do anything about archaic, I wouldn't so quickly assume that powerful magic weapons are guaranteed to have the Archaic property, just because they are old. Some of the things that make 'modern' weapons modern are advanced materials and magical/technomagical enhancements. A Holy Avenger +5 has great heaping amounts of magical enhancement, and probably isn't made of anything resembling ordinary steel by the time its completed.