What classes can use ranged touch attack?
BBT, love that answer.
To expand: every single class in the game (yes, this includes Commoner) can make ranged touch attacks, provided that they have access to some item, feat or ability that hits on a ranged touch attack.
What feat or item might accomplish this?
Normally you will use with spells.
Also, firearms.
I think he is trying to fine a way to only make ranged touch attacks, and never make normal ranged attacks.
However ranged touched attacks are based on certain situations, such as using certain spells. <---This is for the OP.
Is there a way to use your firearm as a vessel & cast ranged touch attack spells through that?
Is there a way to use your firearm as a vessel & cast ranged touch attack spells through that?
In Ultimate Combat, there's a wizard archetype called the Spellslinger that does exactly that.
Spellslinger is a bit different than cross-classing and taking your gun as a bonded weapon. The former actually mechanically casts its spells through its bullets (and can get a x3 crit rather than a standard x2, depending on the build), while the latter is a visual trope only and isn't actually casting through his gun.
If you're worried about losing cantrips well, you're already cross-classing anyway; just cross-class into one level of another caster class to pick them back up.
As an aside, I think it's interesting that they made spellslinger an archetype for wizard rather than for magus, since the magus is already focused on (at his option) casting spells via a weapon.
As an aside, I think it's interesting that they made spellslinger an archetype for wizard rather than for magus, since the magus is already focused on (at his option) casting spells via a weapon.
A magus doesn't really cast spells via weapon, he just casts spells and sometimes delivers them with his weapon.