Savith9
2013-02-07, 03:12 PM
Now I've looked at the Shadow blade feat for a few and I can see the feat working two ways based off how its worded.
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Benefit
While you are in a Shadow Hand stance and attack with one of the discipline's preferred weapons, you can add your Dexterity modifier as a bonus on melee damage for attacks made with the weapon.
Special
Shadow Blade can be used in place of Weapon Finesse to qualify for a feat, prestige class, or other special ability. If this substitution allows you to gain a benefit that normally applies to all finesse weapons (those described in the Weapon Finesse feat description), it instead applies only to the Shadow Hand discipline's preferred weapons.
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Now based off the wording the first way it could be read is add your dex seperate from your Str, now I have looked at a few optimized builds that have it adding this way.
The second way is normally anything where you add a stat it replaces the old one such as Weapon Finesse but that states that it replaces your Str when making attacks.
Any thoughts on this I have seen builds that use it both ways and im thinking it should be the second one and function like Weapon Finesse only for damage but just in case I want to get some ops from others.
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Benefit
While you are in a Shadow Hand stance and attack with one of the discipline's preferred weapons, you can add your Dexterity modifier as a bonus on melee damage for attacks made with the weapon.
Special
Shadow Blade can be used in place of Weapon Finesse to qualify for a feat, prestige class, or other special ability. If this substitution allows you to gain a benefit that normally applies to all finesse weapons (those described in the Weapon Finesse feat description), it instead applies only to the Shadow Hand discipline's preferred weapons.
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Now based off the wording the first way it could be read is add your dex seperate from your Str, now I have looked at a few optimized builds that have it adding this way.
The second way is normally anything where you add a stat it replaces the old one such as Weapon Finesse but that states that it replaces your Str when making attacks.
Any thoughts on this I have seen builds that use it both ways and im thinking it should be the second one and function like Weapon Finesse only for damage but just in case I want to get some ops from others.