So I'm thinking of making a Warpriest of Pharasma who uses a Fauchard. Without taking the feat Weapon Focus: Dagger, would I get the Weapon Training with a dagger (Pharasma's favoured weapon) or not?
Here are the relevant texts:
Sacred Weapon (Su): At 1st level, weapons wielded by a warpriest are charged with the power of his faith. In addition to the favored weapon of his deity, the warpriest can designate a weapon as a sacred weapon by selecting that weapon with the Weapon Focus feat; if he has multiple Weapon Focus feats, this ability applies to all of them.
Weapon Training (Ex): At 5th level, a Molthuni arsenal chaplain gains weapon training as per the fighter class feature, but the benefits of this weapon training apply only to the his sacred weapons (weapons with which the warpriest has taken Weapon Focus). This ability replaces channel energy.
So normally a Warpriest gets their sacred weapon damage with their deity's favoured weapon as well as any weapon for which they take Weapon Focus.
Essentially I'm asking if the bolded sentence in the Arsenal Chaplain's Weapon Training (specifically the part in brackets) limits it to only weapons with which I've taken Weapon Focus? Or if I still get all the benefits for my deity's favoured weapon as well?
Sacred weapons are still sacred weapons. Daggers would be a sacred weapon for you even if you don’t have weapon focus in it. Text in parenthesis is just reminder text and doesn’t have to be complete. It would take specific text forbidding your deity’s favored weapon for it to not still count as your sacred weapon.
Sweet. That's what I thought, but I didn't want to be cheating (I'm the rules guy in my group, so of I bring in something new I like to know I'm doing it right).
Especially if you take the deadeye Bowman trait for pseudo precise shot :)
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Actually on a backup ranged weapon precise shot isn't that big a deal. If melee is your first thing then some of your allies being in melee suggests you should be too - a backup ranged weapon is for enemies who refuse to melee, or for softening enemies up where there's a lot of range to start with.