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Flamboyant Arcana (Ex)

A magus gains the derring-do and opportune parry and riposte deeds from the swashbuckler’s list of deeds.

The magus can spend only points from his arcane pool (not panache points) to use these deeds and any other deeds he gains from the deed arcana. He can’t use points from his arcane pool to use deeds from other classes or those gained by feats, nor can he regain points to his arcane pool as a swashbuckler would regain panache points.

Derring-Do (Ex): At 1st level, a magus can spend 1 panache point when she makes an Acrobatics, Climb, Escape Artist, Fly, Ride, or Swim check to roll 1d6 and add the result to the check. She can do this after she makes the check but before the result is revealed. If the result of the d6 roll is a natural 6, she rolls another 1d6 and adds it to the check. She can continue to do this as long as she rolls natural 6s, up to a number of times equal to her Dexterity modifier (minimum 1).

Opportune Parry and Riposte (Ex): At 1st level, when an opponent makes a melee attack against the magus, she can spend 1 panache point and expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The magus makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the magus, the magus takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If her result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack automatically misses. The magus must declare the use of this ability after the creature’s attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful parry and if she has at least 1 panache point, the magus can as an immediate action make an attack against the creature whose attack she parried, provided that creature is within her reach.

MY question is about the last sentence and the requirement for 1 /arcana/panache point. Do i have to spend that 1point or do just need to have one left over. for example in derring-do it says i need to spend 1 point to get the effect of derring do but not so in the last sentence of opportune parry and riposte

"At 1st level, a magus can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as a swift action to grant any weapon he is holding a +1 enhancement bonus for 1 minute. For every four levels beyond 1st, the weapon gains another +1 enhancement bonus, to a maximum of +5 at 17th level. These bonuses can be added to the weapon, stacking with existing weapon enhancement to a maximum of +5. Multiple uses of this ability do not stack with themselves.

At 5th level, these bonuses can be used to add any of the following weapon properties: dancing, flaming, flaming burst, frost, icy burst, keen, shock, shocking burst, speed, or vorpal.

Adding these properties consumes an amount of bonus equal to the property’s base price modifier. These properties are added to any the weapon already has, but duplicates do not stack. If the weapon is not magical, at least a +1 enhancement bonus must be added before any other properties can be added. These bonuses and properties are decided when the arcane pool point is spent and cannot be changed until the next time the magus uses this ability. These bonuses do not function if the weapon is wielded by anyone other than the magus."

So the last Textpart is important for me to understand how that 1 Arcanapoint can be used
lets say i have a katana+3, i want to spend 1 point from my arcana pool, which gives me at my current level(12) a +3enhacement bonus, but i want the keen proberty which costs a +1 enhancment from that 1 arcana point. Do i get the keen proberty and the leftover +2enhacment from that 1 Arcanapoint spent or do i only get one of them? +2 or keen, or +2 and keen. which is it ?

Hope my problem is understandable. thank you

i just wanted to ask when im a magus, lvl 12 and have like 100hp and use one of the two spells above do i get the hp of the creature i have transformend into. for example a monster with 150 hp. i fight in that form and lose all of the hp do i turn back into my original magus form with my original 100hp. or do i only have my original hp of 100 in the form that i transformed to ?

This is the playtest forum my dude. Got me hungering for a monk feat to be added that does something like this.

sry about that. first time posting. is there some way to move my post somewhere else ?

You place your spirit in a receptive state so when you confirm a critical hit against a living enemy or reduce a living enemy to 0 or fewer hit points, you can steal some of that creature’s ki

I think The Raw states that you actually steal ki from a living creature and it 100 % of the time it has Ki in its body.

Am i Right or Wrong on that one ?