My latest character is a magus. I approached the class in a slightly more unusual fashion because I love to do things my own way and I think the shocking grasp/nova damage approach is formulaic at this point. I took a flail (trip weapon) and built around the concept of tripping through maneuvers and toppling magic missile (thank you magical lineage).I'm also a hexcrafter so I debuff with evil eye.
I was going for flavor and style points but to my surprise this is incredibly effective. I can't crit Fish and my damage is totally mediocre but I completely neuter targets and set up flanks/AOOs with the rogue for opponents getting up from prone. In one or two enemy encounters we dominate.
Do other people use the class similarly? If so why does the shocking grasp crit fishing assassin Steriotype persist?
*shameful bump*
truestrike and trip is a common build for magus.
hexcrafter is seen as one of the better archetypes for a magus.
So yes, there are people who play similar builds.
Why the shocking grasp? well why trip a guy when you can kill a guy? If I have enough spells to nova every round of every fight every day, this happens pretty quickly, then why bother using a maneuver? If you score a crit that's basically a POP goes the enemy.
Oh :(
Until you mission is "bring him back alive" or "we need to interrogate them."
Until you mission is "bring him back alive" or "we need to interrogate them."
There's Merciful Spell for that.
My latest character is a magus. I approached the class in a slightly more unusual fashion because I love to do things my own way and I think the shocking grasp/nova damage approach is formulaic at this point. I took a flail (trip weapon) and built around the concept of tripping through maneuvers and toppling magic missile (thank you magical lineage).I'm also a hexcrafter so I debuff with evil eye.
I was going for flavor and style points but to my surprise this is incredibly effective. I can't crit Fish and my damage is totally mediocre but I completely neuter targets and set up flanks/AOOs with the rogue for opponents getting up from prone. In one or two enemy encounters we dominate.
Do other people use the class similarly? If so why does the shocking grasp crit fishing assassin Steriotype persist?
I have a dual classed Wayang (magus 6 ninja 3) Vanishing trick, arcane pool keen, magical lineage, dissolutions child.
It's a crit fishing shocking grasp, sneak attacker. (1d4 +10 +5d5 +2d6 on normal attack.) It's really fun to see people react to my little skinny wayang unloading on some one.
The reason it persists is it's fun and effective.
Do other people use the class similarly? If so why does the shocking grasp crit fishing assassin Steriotype persist?
Looks like a fun build =) I like the SOOTHSAYER hex with Evil Eye. That way even if they make their save you can still take advantage of the hex on your next turn.
For tripping I recommend the WAND WIELDER arcana & a wand of true-strike.
I have a magus build that uses the BODYGUARD feat with GLOVES OF ARCANE STRIKING (and obviously I have ARCANE STRIKE).
Honestly there's so much you can do with this class that doesn't revolve around Shocking Grasp.
I think the most effective combo probably is Shocking Grasp, but the Magus is a powerful enough class that you can build for fun interesting moves in almost whatever way you want & still be a valuable member of almost any party.
Until you mission is "bring him back alive" or "we need to interrogate them."There's Merciful Spell for that.
I don't believe I've ever seen anybody play a magus with the merciful spell feat or the equivalent rod.
think of the following ....
level 8 cutover:
conductive,cruel weapon : = evil eye > -4 to attacks.
spellstrike = rime frostbite with enforcer feat =
sicken another -2
shaken another -2
fatigue some more minues
entangles some more.and this is using a level 2 (1 with trait) spell......
working VS all non construct or undead foes.
The Enforcer feat requires a melee weapon.
