Now that its been confirmed that natural weapons work with spellstrike I have been kicking around the idea. Sadly the hair magus idea got the hammer by the same FAQ but ohh well. Moving on.
Now to start off this idea works under the assumption that a hexcrafer can take the hex strike feat. You might disagree and that's fine but its not the point of this topic.
So the idea I have had is a hexcrafer tiefling (with claws of course.) With hex strike/feral combat training .
Now already having feral combat training seems to me going with a style would be a given and boar style could help to fill in the damage loss a bit. This would of course work because spellcombat/strike combo would get you 2 or more attacks eben though you are only using the one claw.
The only issue I see is its feat heavy as all hell. A dip into monk or unarmed fighter seems to be a must. Then there is survivability. Dex based would be even more feat heavy and demand an agile AoMF. Str build would have very bad Ac at lower lvls and would have a hard time staying alive in melee.
Any thoughts or advice?
If you're dipping monk anyways, why not just unarmed instead of claw? Less feats, brawling armor so no need for wis since you're doing it for the unarmed strike and style feat, low dc stunning fist is just an extra.. one less attack, but you could take 2WF instead of FCT, and still use metamagic rods in hand instead of tail..
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Go with weapon finesse and dex build. Magus are the ONLY class I recommend weapons finesse to, because they have spells to do more damage. I'd say dip into fighter one level to get feats and armour proficiency (so you could go for AAT if you needed to) and start around 4th or 5th level with elven chain armour. Dipping into monk means that you need high wisdom to benefit from AC, and your unarmed strike does more damage, but your claws don't benefit (I don't think they do anyway). Dipping into fighter gives you bonus feats, so take a level or two of fighter.
The reason for claws is they are a primary NA so they will get 1 1/2 str (Dex with agile). But now that I think about it it might just not be worth it. Going human with unarmed frees 2 feats. humm.
Also just noticed unarmed fighter gets you a style feat without meating the prereqs. So that would just weapon focus out of there.