What's a good way for an unarmed magus to get better concentration checks in grapples?


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So I mentioned in another thread, I was trying to revive my magus/monk, and I thought, "You know what would be cool? If I could grapple people and electrocute them." Can't flurry with spell combat and can't really trip or disarm well without reach, so I figured why not.

I was planning to get greater grapple so I could maintain grapples as a move, allowing me to do unarmed strike and cast a spell while I have someone held, and even thought of taking Maneuver Master so as to have a pretty good grapple check. My problem came when I looked at the concentration DCs--DC 10+opponent CMB+spell level seems, well, like a helluva lot, especially considering the average CMB of enemies is around 18 when I can first pull off the combo.

It's such a cool idea, but I have no idea how it works. It seems outside of eating a bunch of metamagic (still+empower really eats into slots) or spending a lot of money on a ring of freedom of movement there's not much to do. Am I missing something?

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