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Justin Franklin wrote:

Zaister wrote:

What's going on with the spell slots of these classes? The spell tables seem to say the classes lose access to lower level spells as they rise in level and basically only ever have 4 spells per day. That can't be right, can it?

It is correct for the Summoner, the Magius seems to be in discussion.

I was wondering about this too. As these would be the only class to lose spells as they level.

How would they lose spells? Magus can still prepare lower level spells in higher slots, and summoner gets all spells as signature spells so they can cast them via their higher level slots.

Also, note that Pathfinder 2e does not allow you to voluntarily fail saves unless explicitely specified (as in Litany of Self-Interest, for instance).

The dedication gives you On The Case, which means you can have a Lead.

Devising a Stratagem on the subject of your Lead is a free action ;)

And also consider that you don't have to Devise a Stratagem before your first attack. So you could make two attacks, then devise a stratagem against your subject, and only go through with the -10 MAP attack if it'd hit, and do something else otherwise (Raise your Shield, Step away, Demoralize, cast Guidance on an ally, etc.) This makes it possible to regularly triple attack without wasting your action if you miss on the last attack.

I just saw that this question has been answered in another thread. I'm posting this link here in case people stumble over this thread, since I used the actual names of the feats and abilities in my question, while the other thread did not.

The Investigator multiclass archetype contains a feat called Investigator's Stratagem, which gives you the Devise a Stratagem action, but does not allow you to use Intelligence for it. This seems completely useless to me on its own because it basically makes you use two actions for an attack instead of one without any added benefit. The only purpose I can see is the feats that expand on Devise a Stratagem, like Known Weaknesses or Shared Stratagem, but that still seems weak without the benefit of using Intelligence or the additional damage from Strategic Strike (which is impossible to gain from the multiclass archetype as far as I can see). Am I missing something here or is this feat just bad?