feat Improved Precise Shot

Improved Precise Shot (General)

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Prerequisites: Dexterity 19, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, base attack bonus +11.

Benefit: Your ranged attacks ignore the AC bonus granted to targets by anything less than total cover, and the miss chance granted to targets by anything less than total concealment. Total cover and total concealment provide their normal benefits against your ranged attacks.

In addition, when you shoot or throw ranged weapons at a grappling opponent, you automatically strike at the opponent you have chosen.

Normal: See the normal rules on the effects of cover and concealment. Without this feat, a character who shoots or throws a ranged weapon at a target involved in a grapple must roll randomly to see which grappling combatant the attack strikes.

Special: A fighter may select Improved Precise Shot as one of his fighter bonus feats.

An 11th-level ranger who has chosen the archery combat style is treated as having Improved Precise Shot, even if he does not have the prerequisites for it, but only when he is wearing light or no armor.

What Improved Precise Shot Ignores

Improved Precise Shot lets ranged attacks ignore the Armor Class bonus from anything less than total cover and ignore the miss chance from anything less than total concealment. Total cover and total concealment still work normally.

Improved Precise Shot Example

An enemy is partly protected by a low wall. A ranged attacker with Improved Precise Shot ignores the cover bonus granted by that partial obstruction. If the wall instead provides total cover so that the target cannot be attacked through it, the feat does not bypass that protection.

Firing Into a Grapple

The feat also removes the normal random determination when firing at a creature involved in a grapple. You automatically attack the grappling opponent you selected rather than risking the shot against another grappling combatant.

Feat Chain

Improved Precise Shot requires Dexterity 19, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot and base attack bonus +11. See the Feats index for the wider ranged-combat chain.