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On the topic of Dervish Dance and broken builds, the wording of dervish dance is (emphasis is mine):
When wielding a scimitar with one hand, you can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on melee attack and damage rolls. You treat the scimitar as a one-handed piercing weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a duelist’s precise strike ability). The scimitar must be for a creature of your size. You cannot use this feat if you are carrying a weapon or shield in your off hand.
I can see the argument that your off hand is a weapon and therefore does not qualify you to use that feat if you use spell combat in the same round. I would say at the very least that using touch spells in this way might cause your off hand to be considered a weapon (you are considered to be armed while "holding the charge") and render this feat inoperable, at least for that round.
Thoughts?
Carrying a weapon and being considered armed are different things, mechanically and semantically.
I also think its silly that the mechanic represented by Dervish Dance is limited to scimitars so I got my GM to allow me to make one for Aldori Swords. Until some feat comes out that fixes this issue, you might want to do the same.
Hornman makes a good point. The description of Spell Combat even says "this functions much like two weapon fighting, but the offhand weapon is the spell being cast."
If Dervish Dance is based on all that careful balance and dodging, dipping, ducking, diving, and dodging...then using your free hand for complex somatic components to a spell probably doesn't work so well.
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Hornman makes a good point. The description of Spell Combat even says "this functions much like two weapon fighting, but the offhand weapon is the spell being cast."
If Dervish Dance is based on all that careful balance and dodging, dipping, ducking, diving, and dodging...then using your free hand for complex somatic components to a spell probably doesn't work so well.
Ah yes, but the text is very specific:
When wielding a scimitar with one hand, you can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on melee attack and damage rolls. You treat the scimitar as a one-handed piercing weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a duelist’s precise strike ability). The scimitar must be for a creature of your size. You cannot use this feat if you are carrying a weapon or shield in your off hand.
You are not carrying your hand in your offhand. It says nothing about waving your hand around like a moron while you do you scimitar dance of death, just that you cant carry anything in it. I can see a wand or staff causing problems, but your bare hand used for a spell? Nope. Not RAW.
Making a magus for my Xcrawl game. It has 2 feats, return blow and guided strike, as well as an item, Defiant Mountain Tattoo, which are Xcrawl specific. Return Blow allows you to use a full round action to automatically crit an opponent if youve fought and damaged their species 3 times before and succeed on hitting their AC, which gives me about 50/50 on most creatures, and Guided Strike allows you to give an ally a crit under the same conditions. Defiant Mountain Tattoo gives me a +1 Con enhancement. The +5 Natural Armor is from the assumption of having a barkskin potion in me for pretty much all fights. Comments and analysis are appreciated ^_^.
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