| BloodLordCreep |
Alright first time Pathfinder player and first time poster here so bear with me.
I'm about to get into my first Pathfinder campaign, I want to play a Magus because Spell Combat sounds cool, I cast a spell I have prepared and make a weapon attack at the same time, cool.
The problem starts when another player insists that's not how the feature works, based on how two things are worded on the feature's description:
"At 1st level, a magus learns to cast spells and wield his weapons at the same time. This functions much like two-weapon fighting, but the off-hand weapon is a spell that is being cast...."
"...As a full-round action, he can make all of his attacks with his melee weapon at a –2 penalty and can also cast any spell from the magus spell list with a casting time of 1 standard action..."
To the other player this means:
Your spell-casting hand is considered a weapon and thus suffers the -2 penalty, but since only a few spells even make attack rolls where said penalty applies, you can ONLY use spell combat to cast said spells.
As an example, he says you wouldn;t be able to cast Shield using Spell Combat, because Shield is not an attack, you can't cast Fireball because it targets and area and doesn't roll attack.
To me that just sounds... dumb, only touch spells make attack rolls right? And casting touch spells and attacking is already covered by Spellstrike.
Can someone please explain how the feature works? And if it works the way I think it does how do I explain to my fellow player that he's wrong lol.