So you cut yourself with a Sawtooth Sabre... it deals 1D6 damage according to the Obedience, which cannot be healed throughout the one hour ritual... wouldn't be a big deal except all wounds you deal with Sawtooth Sabres deal an additional 1D4 Bleed. For an hour...
Obedience
Meditate in a private place before a trophy or broken religious symbol taken from a target you have been contracted to kill. This trophy must be anointed with a single drop of your blood, drawn from your flesh by a sawtooth sabre, and the trophy must be destroyed at the end of your meditation. If you have yet to complete a contract, have no appropriate trophies at hand, or seek to serve the Mantis God in other ways than as the god’s assassin, you must instead offer your own vital fluid to He Who Walks in Blood by cutting yourself along the right arm with a sawtooth sabre. Such self-mutilation deals 1d6 points of damage to you, which cannot be healed during the hour of meditation without disrupting the obedience; after the meditation ends, the wounds can be healed by any means available. You gain a +2 profane bonus to confirm critical hits while wielding a sawtooth sabre. As long as you have a sawtooth sabre in each hand, you can use those blades to complete the somatic component of any spell you cast, and you treat sawtooth sabres as your divine focus for the casting of divine spells.
Sentinel Boons
2: Bleeding Wounds (Ex) All wounds you inflict with a sawtooth sabre are bleeding wounds, and deal 1d4 points of bleed damage to the target. If you deal bleed damage via another source (such as the bleeding attack rogue talent or by using a wounding sawtooth sabre), this ability does not deal additional bleed damage. You can also use bleed as a quickened spell-like ability three times per day.
I'm sure it's not intentional but yeah. An exception to 'cannot be healed' might be made for a heal check which stops the bleeding without healing damage. And of course you can use up a trophy from a contracted kill to complete the obedience without doing damage to yourself.
Don't you lose the bemefits of obedience 24 hours after performing them? So if you don't have a trophy to use then wait till just after you lose the benefits to renew them.
Oh, good point... the Boon isn't active until after you perform the Obedience.
Alright, Greater TWF with no penalties or prerequisites, here I come...
Mantis Style Mastery (Ex) You take no penalties on attack rolls from two-weapon fighting when wielding two sawtooth sabres simultaneously, and you gain a +2 profane bonus on all damage rolls with sawtooth sabres. If you deal sneak attack damage with a sawtooth sabre, you deal 2 additional points of damage for each die rolled as part of your sneak attack damage. If you have levels in the Red Mantis assassin prestige class (The Inner Sea World Guide 282), the DC for the save against your prayer attack increases by 2.
Red mantis assassins are pretty nifty. I have levels of assassin to a xill for 4! sawtooth saber attacks. I'll have to consider tacking on evangelist.
Red mantis assassins are pretty nifty. I have levels of assassin to a xill for 4! sawtooth saber attacks. I'll have to consider tacking on evangelist.
I was just doing it as a Slayer with Deific/Diverse Obedience. Using Ranger Combat Style feats for access to TWF without meeting the Dex requirements. Come level 18, when Mantis Style Mastery shows up, that's 7 attacks with Greater TWF, no penalties...
Which, ummm, I'm actually not sure how that works (it sounds good, though). Those extra attacks are all at your highest BAB without the penalty built into the feat to bring it online with iterative attacks. But we don't suffer penalties to attack! So all three of the Greater TWF extra off-hand attacks are made at full BAB. I think.
+18/+18/+18/+18/+13/+8/+3 all doing bleed, possibly Sneak Attack, Rend damage...