Hello,
I made the effort and translated the Magus class to make it available to the german gaming community in the official german pathfinder forum - to people who don´t have any skills in the english language.
I will post here their responses. Note: These are not my opionions. Therfore it´s useless to argument against them in this thread. I just translate their conclusions after analyzing the class that they can contribute to the playtest!
Aurelianus said about the Magus (his original post is much longer - I post only his conclusion) :
The magus has fighting potential and with each spell he gets better. Ranged touch attacks are no problem for this character. As supporting fighting character he will be able to do much damage. But he has one disadvantage: a efficent magus only works with a high dex score (if he wants to have an decent AC). While other core classes are varied and can simulate a lot of different characters – the mage has only one efficient play method. This is boring.
Another issue is spell combat. The -4 on attack are a great disadvantage – without maxing Dex and taking weapon finesse it´s practical useless. What advantage has this ability if I can´t use it until short before the next improvement (level 8) comes for it?