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I took this magus to L12 in the special in Jormadun (or however you spell it) and it was awesome. Dwarven historian blackblade magus, so it was too perfect. I had one spell left and no arcane pool by the time we were done, but we rocked it :)
A dwarf in an adamantine breastplate stands before you, waraxe in hand. "I'm afraid this relic belongs to the dwarven people, lads and lassies. Give it up, and walk away. I don't want to hurt ye. Now my friend Dum-Muraz here, he might want to hurt ye." Wait ... is that one dwarf or several? Before combat : Kazmarok has vampiric touch cast into his spell storing adamantium breastplate. If he knows the party is coming, he has also cast shield, mirror image, and blur. During combat : Kazmarok will cast haste using spell combat to enhance himself and his allies and spend an arcane pool point to enhance his axe to +5 flaming, and then begin spellstriking with intensified shocking grasp, frigid touch, chill touch, or corrosive touch with his bladebound keen waraxe, switching combat spells based on observed energy resistances. He will use the empowered magic arcana on a foe who appears particularly dangerous. If he has trouble hitting, he will use pool points for arcane accuracy and cast dispel magic on PC's defensive spells. Otherwise, he will spend them on spell recall to keep mirror image active and maintain temporary hit points from vampiric touch. Give him a couple allies, and this sounds like a messy encounter.
I'm going to bring up an actual situation in a PFS scenario, tier 7-11, playing up. No %$@#, there I was ...:
A huge statue animated, and at the same time a wall collapsed in a cloud of dust, obscuring what was behind it. The party fighter went to engage the statue, supported by the party monk. The fighter took over half HP in one round. Someone then cast haste (or the cleric equivalent, but the details don't matter greatly for this example.) Significant numbers of undead then came out of the cloud of dust, forcing the party to divide resources against two threats. At this point, the party magus decided things just got real. The first undead creature was struck by a spellstrike intensified shocking grasp through a dwarven waraxe, followed up by the second strike from spell combat, which dropped it. This was followed by the haste attack, which was a crit due to improved critical. Finally, the iterative dropped the second undead creature. In this situation, one character probably inflicted about 150 points of damage. However, this was probably a major reaason the party survived that encounter without anyone dropping.
Venture officers can get access to them. If you need some talk to your local VO.Off topic a little bit but has this actually been released? I can't find the darn thing anywhere. Well, congratulations on star 4! I still have twenty some scenarios to go until I get there.
Remember it's a limited resource which a magus may want to use for other things, which prevents it from getting too OP. Now I like using pool points for a +5 keen dwarven waraxe, but I also recognize that it stops me from using spell recall, arcane accuracy, or accurate strike as often. On the other hand, axe crits :)
Hmm, I like.Maybe I'll make it to magus one day.. I'm a fan of the dwarven waraxe magus. I made one as a bladebound. Mostly I used more defensive spells than damage, but then a scenario happened where the fighter went down in front of me due to some brutal tactics. Then it wasn't just jaws hitting the floor when I started casting the heavy stuff; it was bodies.
And as a dwarven bladebound magus, I use me hand-forged waraxe :)
Kazmarok Starforger here! I forged me own axe Dum-Muzaz from the metals of a fallen star. He tells me he is here to strike at the demonic horrors that keep comin' through the Worldwound. While I'm more of a historical bent meself, I keep him happy in me quest to explore the Sky Citadels because the latest one is near the Wound itself, which means I have to strike down me fair share and more of demons. |
