Greetings,
There is one major question I have with the Magus, now I already know when a Magus critical hits and confirms with their melee weapon and it is charged with a touch spell, that spell also critical hits for double damage (No matter the Critical modifier on weapon). But there is the Magus Arcana: Critical Strike, that I am curious of; can a Magus do an Spell Strike and if they critical confirm, do their damage and then cast the Touch Spell after the strike?
Spell Strike critical as an attack, then using Magus Arcana: Critical Strike to follow up with a Touch Spell.
To save the searching, here are the wordings for both abilities:
Spellstrike (Su): 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.
Critical Strike (Su): Whenever the magus scores a critical hit with a melee weapon, he may cast a spell with a range of touch as a swift action, then make a touch attack with that spell against the target of the critical hit as a free action. The magus can use this ability once per day. The magus must be at least 12th level before selecting this arcana.
Thank you for your input.
