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If a Bloodrager of the Blood Conduit archetype trips someone with a weapon, can she use her Spell Conduit power to deliver a touch spell?
Spell Conduit (Su)
At 5th level, as long as a blood conduit is wearing light or no armor, he can deliver bloodrager spells with a range of touch through bodily contact. When he succeeds at a combat maneuver check to bull rush, grapple, pin, reposition, or trip an opponent, or makes an unarmed strike against an enemy, he can as a swift action cast a touch spell on the creature that he affected with the combat maneuver, requiring no further touch attack roll. If this spell would usually require a successful touch attack, his successful combat maneuver check counts as this attack.
This ability replaces uncanny dodge and improved uncanny dodge.
The wording doesn't rule it out, but the 1st sentence does seem restrictive.
Hmm. Then this archetype begins to seem very interesting, since a trip can be substituted for any melee attack.
Take a Bloodrager with Arcane Strike, Blooded Arcane Strike, Riving Strike, Power Attack, and Corungon Strike plus a Cruel weapon at 7th level. Her first attack in a full attack could apply shaken and a typeless -2 to save vs. spells to her target, and her second blow, a trip, would leave her opponent sickened and prone. Then she could deliver a touch spell as a swift action--Ghoul Touch seems like a good choice. If the combo connects, the target has to make a Fort save at -6 or be paralyzed.
Alternately, any 4th level Bloodrager can use Blade Lash to knock opponents down from a distance, then hit them with Shocking Grasp.
Speaking of Shocking grasp, with feat and trait support, the Bloodrager could deliver some Magus-like combos, although minus the chance of getting spell crits, and most touch spells have somatic components, which means no two-handed weapons when delivering said combos. Could still work well.
The biggest hindrances to it is the lateness of his spells, and usually the lack of focus on casting stat and the few spells per day. But if you wanted to you could make a guy meant to do all this.
How do you get Pummeling Charge on a Bloodrager, Calth?
Yep. Blood Conduit is the only Bloodrager I consider worth playing. Instead of a default Bloodrager, which is a Barbarian who occasionally wastes time buffing himself or blasting poorly, you can be an unholy hybrid of barbarian and magus, and do both at once.
I see why you got there, but I would have to rule that the attack must be unarmed. I see no way that a shield bash that does a Bull Rush could be considered, "bodily contact".
YMMV