Butchering (Melee Weapon Magic Property)
Butchering (Melee Weapon Magic Property)
You must be level 21 or higher to equip, wield or wear an item with this property.
A Butchering weapon has been magically enchanted to aggressively seek out the throat, arteries, bowels, and other lethal points on an enemy's body. This property adds +2 to the critical threat range of a weapon. For example, a Longsword has a normal critical threat range if 19-20. With the 'Butchering' property, it becomes 17-20. The Butchering property does not modify the weapon's critical multiplier. There is no need to activate this magic property — it is always on.
A Butchering weapon automatically confirms critical threats, removing the need to roll a confirmation roll.
A Butchering weapon deals its full critical damage to any creature it critically hits, even if that creature is normally immune to critical hits.
Finally, a Butchering weapon inflicts the Crippled condition on any creature it critically hits, unless that creature is normally immune to critical hits. Creatures that are normally immune to critical hits do not suffer this condition.
This property does not stack with the benefit provided by Keen or any other magic property that improves critical threat range, but it does stack with feats, racial traits, spells, and/or class features that expand the critical threat range of a weapon (such as the Improved Critical feat).
- Creation: Creator (Feat), Epic Creator (Feat), Bailiwick Check (DC 57), a blazing remnant (tier 5), and an item symbolic of the enchantment.