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Spell storing weapons have the effect take place on the damaged victim. I'm looking for a way to place an affect on me as the attacker. Since the ioun stong can only store one spell, it doesn't seem that broken of a strategy. I'd like to shield bash with the Shield Slam feat and use the +20 to the attack roll to send one enemy flying before working on the others.
Yes you can however activating the ring requires a standard action minimum so you could activate it one round and then the next round attack unless of course you store a quickend true strike then it would be a swift action.
Quicken makes it four spell levels higher so it wouldn't work on a ring. However, what is the activation time for the purple ioun stone?
If an effect doesn't say what kind of action it is, it is generally a standard action. As the vibrant purple ioun stone works just like a Minor Ring of Storing, the action to activate it is the same as well (which is whatever action type is necessary to cast the spell stored, with a minimum of one standard action).
The vibrant purple ioun stone can only store 3 levels of spells, so it can't hold a quickened True Strike (minimum of 5th level spell). A Ring of Spell Storing (the regular one, not the minor one) can hold 5 levels of spells, so can hold a quickened true strike.
Not that it really matters, as the ring (and therefore, the ioun stone) require a minimum of 1 standard action to activate. So making it a quickened spell has no effect.
Storing True strike in either of these manners (ring or Ion stone) do not change for the wielder of the magic item the "spend a standard action and then next standard action you are sure to hit with an attack" dynamic that the caster would experience if they were casting for themselves.
This isn't a bad dynamic and a fair trade foe attacks need to hit like rays (+20 insight bonus on a ranged touch attack while ignoring concealment? Priceless.)
As a side effect it should be noted the ignore concealment allows precision damage (such as sneak attack) to affect blurred or invisible opponents, thus such a ring would be great for a rogue when that counter (concealment) negate his sneak attack advantage. (a handy just-in-case item for the pragmatic thief/assassin)
Relatively cheap to refill too.
I saw a Rouge use Extended True Strike well, which in this case, may be more valuable in the ring or stone. It gives you one more round to act if you want, perhaps gaining a flank, or choosing to switch weapons when you see the fighter's silver blade striking better than a magical one.
