Im thinking of building a Myrmidarch and came up with two questions....
1- Normal Magus spellstrike ability allows them to deliver touch attack spells like Shocking Grasp through their weapon as a melee attack. At 4th level the Myrmidarch gains the ability to deliver ranged touch attack spells like Ray of Enfeeblement through his ranged weapons.
Does he ever gain the ability to deliver touch attack spells like Shocking Grasp via his bow? If so, when?
2- Back in ancient times (2ed) there was a weapon, I think called the Elven Reinforced Bow, that could be used as both a bow and a quarterstaff. Does anything like that exist in pathfinder besides the ranger Bowstaff spell?
as always, thanks in advance!
1. No. A myrmidarch has both normal spellstrike and ranged spellstrike, but they work on different categories of spells. You cannot shoot someone with an arrow charged with Shocking Grasp and you cannot poke someone with a sword and deliver Ray of Enfeeblement.
2. Not that I've seen.
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1. No. A myrmidarch has both normal spellstrike and ranged spellstrike, but they work on different categories of spells. You cannot shoot someone with an arrow charged with Shocking Grasp and you cannot poke someone with a sword and deliver Ray of Enfeeblement.
However, you can take the Close Range Arcana to use ray or other ranged touch spells with a melee spellstrike.
Would reach metamagic work?. I'd expect shocking grasp close range becomes ranged touch
Yes, it works.
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2- Back in ancient times (2ed) there was a weapon, I think called the Elven Reinforced Bow, that could be used as both a bow and a quarterstaff. Does anything like that exist in pathfinder besides the ranger Bowstaff spell?
A dip into Monk of the Empty Hand would allow you to wield any bow as an improvised quarterstaff without penalties.
well, nuts.....I was looking at the Arcane Archer's ability to deliver area spells with the bow and was hoping that using the myrmidarch was a way to eventually deliver just about any spell that way. The meta feat might be a way to sort of do it, but with the already-diminished casting from the archetype Im not sure its viable.
And the monk is a great suggestion, but I was already considering some zen archer to get all the archery feats.....
thanks all for the quick responses!
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Deylinarr, I am in the same direction. Although I went Archer 4 rather than Monk(to obtain ranged disarm and weapon specialization), then Magus 5, then AA 3, then back to magus for the balance. Although I'm split between Magus 5 or Magus 7 before AA in order to obtain Fighter Training / Greater Weapon Focus.
(Blackstorm) - Spell combat doesn't work with bows. There are several threads on this discussion. I wish it did.
