Paladins and their smite

[Vanderthalen]

Okay, my Paladin has Bracers of the Avenging Knight (he's currently level 11). The question is... A Paladin using his Aura of justice ability. Does everybody get the smite ability at level 11 or 15th level?

[Claxon]

I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but I believe your question is the result of a misunderstanding.

Bracer's of the Avenging Knight does not give you Aura of Justice 4 levels early.

Bracer's of the Avenging Knight only affects the wearer, and would improve a paladin's Smite class ability (only) by increasing anything that depends on character level. Which is basically just how much bonus damage you get.

However, when using aura of justice your allies use your modifiers for bonuses to attack and damage, and your bonuses would include the +4 to damage from the bracers.

[Dave Justus]

Your allies would get the ability to smite using your bonuses. If a magic item has altered those bonuses (whether the bracers or something like enhanced chr) the allies will get that bonus as well. If you would have a bonus of +3 to hit and + 15 damage, then that is what they get.

[Vanderthalen]

Claxon wrote:

I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but I believe your question is the result of a misunderstanding.

Bracer's of the Avenging Knight does not give you Aura of Justice 4 levels early.

Bracer's of the Avenging Knight only affects the wearer, and would improve a paladin's Smite class ability (only) by increasing anything that depends on character level. Which is basically just how much bonus damage you get.

However, when using aura of justice your allies use your modifiers for bonuses to attack and damage, and your bonuses would include the +4 to damage from the bracers.

He gets Aura of justice at level 11 (which he is) the bracers just gives him the ability to smite as if he were 4 levels higher (in this case 15th).