Phantom Blade weapon choices

[miknick55]

Hello,
First time posting on here. I am playing Pathfinder for the first time; the last time I role played was when D&D 3.5 was fairly new.
I am a little less concerned with power play, but I'm not against any suggestions in character synergy.
That being said, I'm playing like a possessed and mutated batman-ish Master of Many Styles Monk/Vigilante character and I am thinking of delving into Phantom Blade Spiritualist and focus on harboring the Phantom Weapon and fighting unarmed.

I have two questions regarding the Phantom Blade:

1. It doesn't seem like there is a limit to what weapon you can choose, beyond being one that you are proficient with. Can I choose anything? It doesn't have to be a slashing or rapier or whatever like the Bladebound Magus Black Blades? I like the idea of a Chakram. I just think they are cool.

2. Two part question: Reading the rules for harboring the Phantom Weapon, it seems as though it is a full-round action, without regard for the distance between the Spiritualist and the Phantom Weapon. Is this true? Could I throw the Phantom Chakram and take a full-round action to harbor it again? Also, to make this quicker and more effective, am I missing a way to make harboring it quicker? I see that there is Quick Manifesting to bring out the Chakram as a swift action, but not finding anything to harbor it faster.

Anyone have any insight on either of these questions? And what do you think of this character idea?

Thanks!

[vhok]

miknick55 wrote:

Hello,

First time posting on here. I am playing Pathfinder for the first time; the last time I role played was when D&D 3.5 was fairly new.
I am a little less concerned with power play, but I'm not against any suggestions in character synergy.
That being said, I'm playing like a possessed and mutated batman-ish Master of Many Styles Monk/Vigilante character and I am thinking of delving into Phantom Blade Spiritualist and focus on harboring the Phantom Weapon and fighting unarmed.

I have two questions regarding the Phantom Blade:

1. It doesn't seem like there is a limit to what weapon you can choose, beyond being one that you are proficient with. Can I choose anything? It doesn't have to be a slashing or rapier or whatever like the Bladebound Magus Black Blades? I like the idea of a Chakram. I just think they are cool.

2. Two part question: Reading the rules for harboring the Phantom Weapon, it seems as though it is a full-round action, without regard for the distance between the Spiritualist and the Phantom Weapon. Is this true? Could I throw the Phantom Chakram and take a full-round action to harbor it again? Also, to make this quicker and more effective, am I missing a way to make harboring it quicker? I see that there is Quick Manifesting to bring out the Chakram as a swift action, but not finding anything to harbor it faster.

Anyone have any insight on either of these questions? And what do you think of this character idea?

Thanks!

1: if you want to use spellstrike/spellcombat you still need it to be 1handed but it can be a mace or whatever. but if you don't care about spellstrike/combat or need a ranged weapon you could make it a bow if you wanted.

[Melkiador]

It says it’s similar to the black blade, this could include this:

Quote:

A black blade is always a one-handed slashing weapon, a rapier, or a sword cane.

[avr]

I don't think the black blade restriction applies, but to work with spell combat it needs to be a one-handed or light melee weapon. To work with spellstrike (which you may not, the spiritualist spell list isn't well suited to it) you want as high a crit range as possible. That kind of points you towards a scimitar/cutlass or a rapier, though it's not a hard requirement.

[Dragonborn3]

The creator says any weapon is up for grabs, but not for Spell Combat.

[ErichAD]

You can spend a pool point to manifest and harbor it as a free action.
The weapon can be any weapon you're proficient with.
Spell strike is melee only, spell combat is one handed melee and thrown only.