I have a hard time combining a couple of abilities and realizing their implications until someone else tells me about it. While at GenCon, I was told there was a vague area about how the Magus can or cannot combine Spell Combat and Spellstrike.
Spell Combat allows the Magus to treat a casted spell as an offhand attack, which in essence lets them cast a spell at -2 to attack where applicable, and also swing with their blade at -2.
Spellstrike allows you to deliver a touch attack using your blade, which gives the spell the advantage of using the crit range of your weapon (cough, keen!).
And in Core RAW, you can cast a touch spell, then step or walk over and perform the touch.
So, to take this combo to the max...
- Can a magus cast shocking grasp, step 5', and use Spell Combat + Spellstrike to swing once with the blade to deliver the shocking grasp at -2 to hit, and swing yet again with the blade at -2 for the second attack, also delivering the shocking grasp if the first attack misses? (bear in mind I assume the blade attacks are actual swings, not simply touch attacks, so I'm trying to hit the full AC of the target here and cause blade damage + the shocking grasp, as long as it isn't already discharged).
What of this combo can I NOT do?
Also, just to be really cheesy...
- If the victim has metal on them, does the blade attack get +3, as in the shocking grasp spell description? (Just a curiosity, I'm thinking no).
Thanks for any help.