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So I'm going to be a gestalt Swashbuckler (Inspired Blade) // Arcanist (Blade Adept), and have a question regarding Spell Strike. It reads:
Spell Strike:
"At 2nd level, whenever a magus casts a spell with a range of “touch” from the magus spell list, he can deliver the spell through any weapon he is wielding as part of a melee attack. Instead of the free melee touch attack normally allowed to deliver the spell, a magus can make one free melee attack with his weapon (at his highest base attack bonus) as part of casting this spell. If successful, this melee attack deals its normal damage as well as the effects of the spell. If the magus makes this attack in concert with spell combat, this melee attack takes all the penalties accrued by spell combat melee attacks. This attack uses the weapon’s critical range (20, 19–20, or 18–20 and modified by the keen weapon property or similar effects), but the spell effect only deals ×2 damage on a successful critical hit, while the weapon damage uses its own critical modifier."
I have two questions:
1) Does channeling a touch spell through my weapon provoke an attack of opportunity like a normal touch spell?
2) Does my arcane spell failure from wearing armor effect channeling a touch spell through my weapon?
Sorry, I've never played before so I apologize if these are dumb questions.