help with attack bonus adjustment (Divine Power)

[clavin123]

I have a cleric that uses Divine Power a lot and was trying to set-up a custom "condition" that I can just check when he activates it.

The HP and Strength enhancement are working fine, but I can't get the bonus to Base Attack to work correctly. I have no trouble simply adding to the attack bonus, but when I try to make the system increase the actual base attack bonus (so that the extra attack will appear if applicable), I can't do it.

Here is what I have coded, can someone with a lot more experience tell me what I am doing wrong?

~ Make our Base Attack Bonus equal to total character level

if (hero.child[Attack].field[tAtkBase].value < #totallevelcount[]) then
hero.child[Attack].field[tAtkBase].value = #totallevelcount[]
endif

(I am pretty sure the "if/then" is not necessary, but just it is possible to have a tAtkBase that is greater than total levels, I put in there.)

I think my problem is linked to priority level given how I am coding this.

Using an 11th level pure cleric as my test case (#totallevelcount[] = 11 while the tAtkBase = 8). The bonus should be a 3, adding an extra attack, but it is not working.

When I set priority at "pre-levels" the bonus applied is that of the #totallevelcount[]. (The result is Base Attack of +19/+14/+9/+4.) This makes sense to me as it is setting the AtkBase at 11 and then adding the 8 additional points from his cleric levels.

However, when I set the priority to anything later (and I tried each of the user priority levels), something happens, but it is wrong. I end up with Base Attack of +8/+3/-2. It is pretty clearly adding a bonus that then triggers (correctly) the 3rd attack, but then it does not apply the bonus (or the bonus gets stripped out later).

Help would be greatly appreciated.