Disruptive Recall and continuous damage from Lingering Pain


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Question: Would the Disruptive Recall feat be applicable to an opponent's failed concentration check caused by the Magus Arcana Lingering Pain?

Disruptive Recall:
You can disrupt an enemy caster's spells to fuel your own arcane power.
Prerequisites: Spell recall class feature, Spellcraft 5 ranks.
Benefit: When you use a melee attack to successfully disrupt an arcane spellcaster's spell, you can immediately use your spell recall class feature to regain a magus spell you have already cast. This ability functions as if you had expended a number of points from your arcane pool equal to the level of the spell you disrupted, up to the maximum level spell you can cast.

Lingering Pain:
The magus can expend 1 point from his arcane pool as an immediate action after hitting a target with a weapon attack. All damage from that attack (including damage from a spell cast using the spellstrike ability) is considered continuous damage for the purposes of any concentration checks made by the target prior to the beginning of the magus's next turn.

Answer #1: The disruption must come from the melee attack striking the spellcaster (as in a readied action or full round+ casting), so the concentration check prompted by Lingering Pain is not applicable.

Answer #2: The concentration check prompted by Lingering Pain was a direct result of a melee attack. Thus the disruption was caused by the melee attack and the Disruptive Recall feat would apply.

Which answer is applicable in this case?


I would consider answer #2 (assuming the attack in question was melee and not ranged). The Lingering Pain does not change the fact it is melee weapon damage, only extends the effect into continuous for one round. I might add caveat that the combo won't work if the attack carried a spellstrike as it is combining damage from melee attack with spell but I would have to think about it.

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Thread necro, since I'm running into the same question right now with my magus as I consider picking up Disruptive Recall, but it's a lot more useful if Lingering Pain works with it. Thoughts, community?

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