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Since my players are locked into their classes for a while, I was thinking about trying Magus for one of the campaign's recurring villains. The problem is that Magus is clearly designed with a player in mind and the villain in question is a Will-o-Wisp.
Many of the spell book issues can be handled with Mage Hand as a cantrip, but I notice that Spellstrike seems worded in the same way as certain feats--it refers to "held weapons," which some have interpreted to exclude natural weapons. Is a Wisp's melée touch attack a viable option for Spellstrike(treating it as -4 when combined with a spell)? Can a wisp cast a touch attack spell and hold the charge until the following round and combine it with its shock touch attack?
I suspect that the will-o-wisp is more atypical than most monsters that might benefit from this class, since it only possesses a supernatural attack, unlike other monsters with natural attacks OR a special attack...but it is an important question for monsters like wights who could possess weapon proficiency as well as their energy draining slam(which seems to work even with melée weapons in some Paizo stat blocks, so how energy drain and Magus interact would be equally good to know).
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Not all monsters are ideal candidates for all classes. Sorcerer is a much better choice for class levels for a will-o-wisp, I think.
Of course, if your desire is to playtest the magus, you should use something that can wield weapons.
Would a wight's energy drain apply to weapon attacks? I've seen stat blocks that do that but never any specific rules text that allowed it. Assuming that a wight could use energy drain with a melée weapon, would that stack with a Magus' class abilities?