Couple of Spellslinger Questions

[Shisumo]

1) If you lose the cantrips ability, as the spellslinger does, are you still considered to have those cantrips on your class spell list? For instance, could you use a wand with a cantrip on it without using Use Magic Device?

2) The mage bullets ability lacks much of the verbiage that other, similar abilities (like the magus' arcana pool and the paladin's dive bond) have, and I am wondering if this is intentional. One of the most obvious is that it does not specify that the enhancement stacks with enchantments already on the gun, so I'm not sure what would happen to a +2 reliable musket whose owner converts a 4th level spell into an enhancement for it. Could I make it a +4 reliable flaming burst musket or am I stuck with a plain-ol' +4 musket? Also, it doesn't place the +10 cap on total of abilities + enhancement bonus, and it doesn't seem to require that a nonmagical gun be given a +1 bonus before any other enhancements can be made. What is the intention here?

[LazarX]

Shisumo wrote:

1) If you lose the cantrips ability, as the spellslinger does, are you still considered to have those cantrips on your class spell list? For instance, could you use a wand with a cantrip on it without using Use Magic Device?

2) The mage bullets ability lacks much of the verbiage that other, similar abilities (like the magus' arcana pool and the paladin's dive bond) have, and I am wondering if this is intentional. One of the most obvious is that it does not specify that the enhancement stacks with enchantments already on the gun, so I'm not sure what would happen to a +2 reliable musket whose owner converts a 4th level spell into an enhancement for it. Could I make it a +4 reliable flaming burst musket or am I stuck with a plain-ol' +4 musket? Also, it doesn't place the +10 cap on total of abilities + enhancement bonus, and it doesn't seem to require that a nonmagical gun be given a +1 bonus before any other enhancements can be made. What is the intention here?

1. No... those cantrips are not on your spell list. Maybe however you can get a wizard to make you a Rod of Prestidgitation.

2. The intent is that you're free to do with whatever you like as long as you keep to the +5/+5 cap for enhancement and abilities.

[Shisumo]

LazarX wrote:

2. The intent is that you're free to do with whatever you like as long as you keep to the +5/+5 cap for enhancement and abilities.

But that doesn't answer the stacking question or determine whether you need to give your gun a +1 before you can give it, say, flaming.

[Sabian]

I too am curious about these questions and have been researching for a while. Also, how does the "Dancing" and other enhancements work with Mage Bullets. There are a few Mage bullet enhancement options listed that only work with Melee weapons. It would be nice if there was a little more details available on how these are supposed to work on a ranged weapon.

ie. Does the Dancing enhancement make the gun fire and reload by itself?