This light exotic piercing weapon consists of a three-pronged barbed hook attached to a length of chain.Benefit: The talon gives its wielder a reach of 10 feet and deals 1d4 piercing damage (or 1d3 for Small creatures), threatening a critical on a natural 20. In addition, the wielder may initiate disarm or trip attacks with the talon, gaining a +2 bonus on either check. If the opponent resists the trip attempt and tries to trip him in turn, the wielder may drop the talon to avoid falling prone.
Ever since I saw this weapon, I've kind of drooled a little bit at the aspect of a reach magus. (Yes, I know that can be accomplished through a Whip, but this way there's no need to grab ten thousand feats to threaten with it). As it is a piercing light weapon, it is eligible for Swashbuckler Finesse, which opens up nabbing Slashing Grace and Dex-Damage.
In other words, my plan would be to go Swash 1 / Magus X. However, would you say that it is worth it? I mean, it seems pretty fun, and with all the Dervish Magi builds that have flourished the webs I have little doubt that it would be effective - but is there any unforeseen snags to this that I might not have noticed?
I suppose it should be added that depending on the archetypes, there's one race that seems like the "obvious" pick, Half-Elves getting EWP at L1 for free, and it opens up the really neat Elf Magus FCB (+1/6 arcana!) - but there's also stuff like going Kensai Goblin (WF + EWP + 4 dex + small size benefits, but loses out on spells)
Thoughts?
Also note - Swordmaster's Flair: Blue Scarf...
Obvious snag: You can't use it with Slashing Grace. It's Light.
Second snag: 20/x2 crit range. Not insurmountable, but it should be doing something awesome.
Third snag... it doesn't really do anything awesome.
Hahahahahaha. Oh, the beauty. Well then, back to the drawing board!