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The majority of Paladin abilities involve the Paladin's Class Level, so while it would be nice to suddenly be able to Smite Evil, you won't be doing that much damage as far as Smite is considered.
Smite allows you to bypass all DR the Smited enemy possesses, so even if you're only doing an additional +1 damage against it (+2 if it's an evil dragon, undead, or evil outsider), that +1 and all your other damage is not affected by DR. If you were to use Spell Combat, your spell in your off hand will still fall under DR or resistance, so you gotta be careful.
Paladins use their Cha for their abilities, while the Magus uses Int. Make him/her very pretty.
One thing I'm a little confused about is the wording for Channel Positive Energy:
When a paladin reaches 4th level, she gains the supernatural ability to channel positive energy like a cleric. Using this ability consumes two uses of her lay on hands ability. A paladin uses her level as her effective cleric level when channeling positive energy. This is a Charisma-based ability.
I don't know if this means you'd combine your Paladin lvl and Magus lvl for the Channel, but if it did, you'd suddenly have a very powerful ability.
I like the concept. It'd take a little finessing, but it's doable.
I wouldn't use an arcana for your paladin spells, most of their most valuable spells are swift-action activated to boost your combat powers, so you don't really need spell combat with them.
Paladin/Magus would be a decent combatant, but your spellcasting will never be great, so be aware of that. The only thing I would recommend is maybe taking paladin levels sooner, but that's it.
The first problem that comes to mind is the MADdness. You'll need (at least) Str/Dex, Int, and Cha at a high rate, and you'll probably want some Con in there too. Will you be using an Aasimar subrace? Either Azata Blooded or Peri Blooded would work best. You'll probably want to go on a Dex build, since you won't have enough Magus levels to cast in heavier armor.
At 7 levels he can cast in medium, which is fine, works with Mithral celestial full plate without problems.
Technically speaking mithral full plate still counts as heavy armor, even though it weighs the same as medium armor. A 7th level magus cannot wear mithral full plate, ever.
The point of mithral is it is lighter, so there is less penalties for wearing mithral armor, but you still have to qualify to be able to wear the type of armor (whatever material its made of). Since full plate counts as heavy armor, you cannot wear it unless you can wear heavy armor.
Well I said the "7th level magus" cannot wear mithral full plate armor (I didn't say anything about paladin).
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Well I said the "7th level magus" cannot wear mithral full plate armor (I didn't say anything about paladin). But you still have to take Heavy Armor Proficiency feat.
If the Magus is level 7, then yes, he cannot wear and cast in the Mithral Full Plate.
However, once he is Magus 7/Paladin 1, he can. Mithral Full Plate is counted as Medium Armor for everything but proficiency, which the level in Paladin would give him. So he could spell combat and all that nonsense.
Also, I'm pretty sure there is a Magus archetype coming out of the ACG that casts off Charisma. Would work beautifully for a build like this.
Well I said the "7th level magus" cannot wear mithral full plate armor (I didn't say anything about paladin). But you still have to take Heavy Armor Proficiency feat.If the Magus is level 7, then yes, he cannot wear and cast in the Mithral Full Plate.
However, once he is Magus 7/Paladin 1, he can. Mithral Full Plate is counted as Medium Armor for everything but proficiency, which the level in Paladin would give him. So he could spell combat and all that nonsense.
Also, I'm pretty sure there is a Magus archetype coming out of the ACG that casts off Charisma. Would work beautifully for a build like this.
Yeah, I get that. That's why I said magus, not paladin, nor this specific build.
For this build if you have the Ultimate Class Guide you can use the Eldritch Scion archetype. It's a spontaneous caster using CHR as the casting stat. Intelligence isn't all that useful for Paladin but CHR sure is so useful for saves and to hit bonus when smiting. On top of that you could grab 4 levels of Dragon Disciple too for +4 str as you'd be spontaneous arcane caster.
At 7 levels he can cast in medium, which is fine, works with Mithral celestial full plate without problems.Technically speaking mithral full plate still counts as heavy armor, even though it weighs the same as medium armor. A 7th level magus cannot wear mithral full plate, ever.
The point of mithral is it is lighter, so there is less penalties for wearing mithral armor, but you still have to qualify to be able to wear the type of armor (whatever material its made of). Since full plate counts as heavy armor, you cannot wear it unless you can wear heavy armor.
Mithral Full Plate counts as Medium for the purpose of movement and other limitations(such as Spell casting) but you need Heavy Armor Proficiency in order to not take Armor Check penalty to attack rolls. So a Magus that doesn't get rid of their Medium Armor ability can cast in Mithral Full Plate.
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Yeah, I get that. That's why I said magus, not paladin, nor this specific build.Well I said the "7th level magus" cannot wear mithral full plate armor (I didn't say anything about paladin). But you still have to take Heavy Armor Proficiency feat.If the Magus is level 7, then yes, he cannot wear and cast in the Mithral Full Plate.
However, once he is Magus 7/Paladin 1, he can. Mithral Full Plate is counted as Medium Armor for everything but proficiency, which the level in Paladin would give him. So he could spell combat and all that nonsense.
Also, I'm pretty sure there is a Magus archetype coming out of the ACG that casts off Charisma. Would work beautifully for a build like this.
It's not really relevant to the conversation then? I'd imagine that no one is really claiming that a straight level 7 Magus can wear Mithral Full Plate w/o Heavy Armor Proficiency or taking a big nasty penalty to all of their rolls.