Spellstrike and Shocking Grasp

[Abyssalwyrm]

So Shocking Grasp provides: "If the target is wearing metal armor or
is made of metal, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your
attack roll with shocking grasp".
But Spellstrike replaces your regular melee spell attack with Spellstrike's melee attack.
Question is, would +1 circumstance bonus apply to Spellstrike's attack, if Magus uses it against target wearing meta armor?"

[Darksol the Painbringer]

I can see it going either way, but I would rule it does, simply because 1. It's the easier, more fluid way to read it (interpreting it another way requires more mental gymnastics by comparison), and 2. Spellstrike's melee attack is also the attack roll with Shocking Grasp, making it still fulfill the relevant clause.

It's another case of Paizo's subtle yet purposeful writing shining through.

[breithauptclan]

In case anyone else is like me and suffering from severe deja-vu...

Shocking Grasp and Spellstrike.

Continue.

[Candlejake]

I can see both sides but mostly i have seen it rules as no, the melee attack does not gain the bonus from shocking grasp. Since you are not attacking with shocking grasp, you are making a melee attack, which makes shocking grasp hit automatically.

[SaveVersus]

Rule of Cool, I'd allow it, but I think a better perspective would be:

What other spells benefit from this ruling?
Is there another spell-attack-roll Spell that gets a bonus? How many Spells, and would this push those spells into "must take" territory over other spells of the same level?

[chapter6]

Magnetic acceleration does that, under the same conditions