A Magus needs rating / advice / opinions

[widuj]

Hi,
i need a bit of help for my magus, but it is heavy houseruled.

Zyx
Male human magus 4 (bladebound)
CG Medium humanoid
Init +4; Senses Perception +7
Languages Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Sylvan

DEFENSE
AC 22, touch 14, flat-footed 18 (+4 armor, +4 Dex, +4 shield)
hp 39 (4 HD)
Fort +6, Ref +5, Will +4
Defensive Abilities none

OFFENSE
Speed 30 ft. (6 squares)
Melee +1 scimitar +8 (1d6+5)
Ranged longbow +7 (1d8/×3)
Special Attacks arcane pool (4 points, +1 bonus), spell combat, spellstrike
Magus Spells Prepared (CL 4; Concentration +7)
2nd-level (2/day), 1st-level (4/day), 0-level (4 at will)

STATISTICS
Abilities Str 12 (+1), Dex 18 (+4), Con 14 (+2), Int 16 (+3), Wis 10 (+0), Cha 7 (–2)
Base Atk +3; CMB +9 ; CMD 19

Feats: Power Attack (house rule), Combat Expertise (house rule), Deft Maneuvers (house rule, this feat includes Improved Dirty Trick, Improved Disarm, Improved Feint, Improved Trip, Improved Steal, Improved Reposition), Toughness, Dervish Dance, Vicious Stomp (magic item)

Skills: Acrobatics +5, Climb +5, Knowledge (arcana) +8, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +7, Knowledge (local) +5, Knowledge (planes) +7, Perception +7, Perfom (Dance) +0, Ride +8, Spellcraft +8, Stealth +7, Survival +2, Swim +5

SQ magus arcana (black blade), spell recall

Combat Gear arrows (20), potions of cure light wounds (3); Other Gear longbow, +1 scimitar (blackblade, house ruled, see below), coin of luck (see below), blade boot (see below), magic glove (see below)

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Black Blade: +1 cold iron scimitar; Alternate Black Blade Strike: for 1 arcane pool point, the weapon deals 1 +1 point of strength damage for 5 levels and counts as ominous weapon for 1 minute; no awareness ability

Magical Glove: +2 CMB; ignore 1 fumble per day on a melee attack

Coin of Luck: thrown weapon (10 ft. Touch attack); target must reroll every d20 and take the worse for 1d6 rounds, during this time you can reroll anyone d20 roll

magical blade boot: +1 gruel blade boot; extendable for free action, grant the feat: vicious stomp

Traits: Noble Born (Orlovsky), Armor Expert, Awareness (house rule, perception is a class skill)

I'm playing around with feats and equipment like:

-enchanting the boot with agile ability
-getting mithral chain shirt (maybe +1)
-combat reflexes
-arcane strike
-two weapon fighting
-greater trip
-wand wielder (main reason: wand of true strike)
-fast learner
-intensified spell (around level 9)
-improved initiative
-maximized spellstrike (around level 9)

The combo of gruel blade boot and ominous scimitar is very lame, right? Want should I do?

[Blueluck]

You don't have Weapon Finesse, a prerequisite for Dervish Dance.

-getting mithral chain shirt (maybe +1)
This should be your first investment

-enchanting the boot with agile ability
How often to you actually attack with the boot? Unless you have two-weapon fighting and make a full attack, this probably isn't very useful to you.

-two weapon fighting
As a Magus, your chance to hit monsters will not increase as fast as a full BAB class would, so the -2 attack roll will hurt. Also, your attacks largely serve to deliver touch spells, making certain hits much more important that quantity of hits.

-greater trip
If there are usually other people in melee with you to take advantage of the attack of opportunity, then this could be worthwhile. Otherwise, not.

-improved initiative
Always useful.

[MC Templar]

I think the entire build is based around stomping on people for free once they are tripped, so the boot looks more like a "signature item" than anything else...

For Two Weapon Fighting, can the bladed boot be an "off-hand" weapon?

I'm beginning to envision a TaiKwanLeap Magus

[Matt2VK]

Wand Weilder is requires certain conditions to be useful.
(1) Someone with the Craft: Wand feat
(2) Easy access to cheap wands.
With Wand Wielder, a Wrist Sheath, Spring loaded is crazy good. If you have a wand loaded into it (standard action to load) you can pop that wand into your hand as a swift action.

Feats -
Try to talk your GM into allowing quick draw (or a feat like it) to be used with wands. If you decide to grab Wand Wielder

With you're limited Arcane Pool, you might want to grab the Feat: Extra Arcane. With Spell Recall, you will find those 2 extra arcane points is another 2nd level spell or 2x 1st level spells.

Items -
Pearls of Power - find them, buy them, or steal them. Worse comes to worse, beg them from the GM.

Handy Hoversack - for pulling stuff out in middle of combat. Scrolls/Potions like Fly, Glitterdust, Darkvision, See invisible are spells very handy to have one you need them but you don't want to use a spell slot to memorize.

[widuj]

thanks.

the glove, the coin and the boots are a magic item set.

i forget to mention weapon finesse.

with fast learner you can get potentially 5 arcane pool points, so better than extra arcane pool points.

twf was suggested by the gm and this is the way he thinks it works, i'm fine with that.