Deadly Aim feat & Vanguards

[Darrell Impey UK]

The text for deadly aim specifically says,
"When you take the attack or full attack action with weapons (including a solarian’s solar manifestation, but not spells or other special abilities of any kind)".
Which would eliminate the ability to use it with the Vanguard's Entropic Strike. Has there been an FAQ/errata or similar (maybe a new feat?) that works around this?

[Xenocrat]

No, but deadly aim is a trap feat for people who can’t do math, so restricting it is good.

[Nefreet]

"Your entropic strike is a magical one-handed advanced melee weapon"

"Your solar weapon functions as a one-handed kinetic advanced melee weapon"

Both are listed as (Su).

What makes you think you can't use Deadly Aim?

[Darrell Impey UK]

"including a solarian’s solar manifestation, but not spells or other special abilities of any kind"

The last bit.

[Garretmander]

Quote:

When you take the attack or full attack action with weapons

Quote:

Your entropic strike is a magical one-handed advanced melee weapon

Entropic strike is a weapon, therefore you can use deadly aim. Just because it and solar weapons are also special abilities does not make them not weapons.

Now, deadly aim on the other hand makes you much less accurate for pitiful amounts of extra damage, so you shouldn't use it with entropic strike in the first place. You can, you just shouldn't

[Xenocrat]

If you are super accurate (attacking scrubs) with a weak weapon (small arm) Deadly Aim can have a small positive on your expected damage. Otherwise it’s a wasted feat or a negative.

Maybe the real deadly aim was the high damage weapons targeting KAC that we used along the way.