Blessed Hammer and Rusting Grasp


Rules Questions


Hi! I have got a question regarding the Blessed Hammer feat and the Rusting Grasp spell.

The Blessed Hammer feat lets you deliver touch spells with a warhammer. Rusting Grasp is a touch spell. Now if I am correct an attack with the charged hammer deals damage and if the target wears non-magical metal armor, it's AC will be reduced by 1d6.

The spell states that you can only do one melee touch attack per round, but since I am not using melee touch attacks, but weapon attacks instead, does that mean that the spell's rust effect can now be delivered with every attack during a full-round-action? And what about attacks of opportunity?

The other question is if I still provoke attacks of opportunity, if I want to destroy the target's melee weapon, even though I am not doing a melee touch attack?


I would say that the touch is still limited to once per round as the weapon is delivering the spell for you.

Another way to run it would be to say that, for X rounds it would be running, the weapon has X charges on it, and each successful attack applies the affect but loses a charge.

In regards of attacking the opponent's weapon, this would effectively act as a Sunder attempt since it's a standard melee attack targeting a weapon. In that regard you would still provoke AoOs, but improved Sunder would allow you to avoid this.

Ultimately this seems deep in RAW vs RAI. If you're not the DM, I suggest discussing it with them. If you are: Go with whatever seems fair.

On a side note: I didn't know there was basically a Divine version of Magus' Spellstrike, and as a feat instead of being a class feature. That's cool!

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