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The Bloodrager archetype Blood conduit have a class feature called spell conduit. On page 82 in Advanced Race Gudie and on the PRD it reads as:
At 5th level, as long as a blood conduit is wearing light armor 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, requiring no further touch attack roll. If this spell would usually require a successful touch attack, his successful combat maneuver check or unarmed strike counts as this attack. This ability replaces uncanny dodge and improved uncanny dodge.
I see two problems with how this is written.
First, a lot of combat manoeuvre checks doesn’t really involve bodily contact. Tripping with a reach weapon. Or at range with bolas. Technically, wouldn't you be able to use Spell Conduit after casting Hydralic Push
You call forth a quick blast of water that knocks over and soaks one creature or square. You can use this blast of water to make a bull rush against any one creature or object. Your CMB for this bull rush is equal to your caster level plus your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier, whichever is highest. This bull rush does not provoke an attack of opportunity. Hydraulic push extinguishes any normal fires on a creature, object, or in a single 5-foot square which it is targeted against. Magical fires are unaffected.
I mean, you make a Combat manoeuvre check to bull rush. With a beam of water and not your body, but spell conduit just require a bull rush.
Of course, the text reads can deliver bloodrager spells with a range of touch through bodily contact. And that could exclude any ranged attempts at using spell conduit.
But that leads me into my next observation. Natural attacks aren't mention as a way to use spell conduit. I find this to be an especially glaring omission when bloodragers can so easily gain access to natural attacks; both the Abyssal and Draconic bloodlines give you claws and they where included in the same book.
Yet the text on spell conduit is rather precise at what constitutes bodily contact, instead of just saying that contact is required and letting the players figure out what that means. Which leads me to believe that you don't touch bodies when using a slam attack. Unless natural attacks somehow is counted as unarmed strikes or something.
So, can I use spell conduit with a whip but can't use it with my claws?