Seeking enhancement?

[UristMcRandom]

Can the Seeking enhancement be applied to a weapon with the Throwing enhancement? The RAW says a Ranged weapon, but I'm not exactly sure how Ranged v. Throwing-enhanced is handled.

[Red Fel]

Can the Seeking enhancement be applied to a weapon with the Throwing enhancement? The RAW says a Ranged weapon, but I'm not exactly sure how Ranged v. Throwing-enhanced is handled.

Take a look at the tables here (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm). Ranged is a specific category of weapon, like melee. Some ranged weapons are thrown, such as a Javelin.

The Throwing (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicWeapons.htm#throwing) enhancement can only be placed on a melee weapon. A ranged weapon is not a melee weapon, and thus cannot support the Throwing enhancement. Consider the language of the Javelin again, emphasizing that although it can be used in melee, it is not a melee weapon.

The Seeking (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicWeapons.htm#seeking) enhancement can only be placed on a ranged weapon. Again, because it can only be placed on a ranged weapon, it cannot be used on a melee weapon; adding Throwing to a melee weapon does not make it a ranged weapon, it merely makes it a melee weapon that can be thrown without the usual -4 penalty (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/weapons.htm#thrownWeapons) for throwing a melee weapon.

Short version: No, you can't put Seeking on a Thrown weapon.

Caveat: I believe there is some sort of elven sword-bow out there somewhere that is treated as both a ranged weapon and a melee weapon. You might want to check the stats on that. Still wouldn't work well thrown, though.

[Rubik]

Yes. Yes, it can.


Weapon Categories

Weapons are grouped into several interlocking sets of categories.

These categories pertain to what training is needed to become proficient in a weapon’s use (simple, martial, or exotic), the weapon’s usefulness either in close combat (melee) or at a distance (ranged, which includes both thrown and projectile weapons), its relative encumbrance (light, one-handed, or two-handed), and its size (Small, Medium, or Large).The throwing enhancement turns a melee weapon into a thrown weapon, so the seeking enhancement can be added to it afterward.

[Snowbluff]

Hey, wait a second...

My shortspear can having seeking for melee combat. >:D