| Kazaan |
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Chill Touch and Frostbite are exact parallels; touch spells with multiple touches and no timeout. These both work well for a Magus (9 times out of 10, that's the real purpose behind these types of inquiries), especially Frostbite + Rime Metamagic + Magical Liniage (Chill Touch isn't actually a cold spell so Rime doesn't work) as it allows both fatigue and entangle with no save (so long as the target isn't immune to nonlethal or cold).
Calcific Touch is a touch spell with multiple touches, but it has a timeout of 1 min/level and also explicitly limits you to one touch per round. It can also be used with Spellstrike.
Elemental Touch is a personal spell that grants you a touch attack. As such, you cannot make a potion of it nor can a Magus use it with Spellstrike.
Flame Blade and Gozreh's Trident creates a weapon-like effect in your hand, except that it targets touch AC and deals energy damage without a Str bonus. They are not Personal spells, but has a "range" of 0 feet (it conjures the weapon "in your hand", but isn't a Personal spell that targets the caster). They are also not touch spells, so a Magus couldn't use them with spellstrike. Produce Flame is similar, except that it creates a weapon-like effect that is just a "throwable fire" rather than a specific melee weapon. Otherwise, everything else is the same.
Fiery Shuriken also creates weapon-like effects, but they "float" around you so you don't actually "throw" them, but magically launch them at the target. The Shuriken target as a close-range spell.
| Johnny_Devo |
I was more thinking about the applications of the synergy between touch spells and the warlock's mystic bolts. Specifically, the warlock can deliver the mystic bolts at melee by touching the opponent, which means that any held touch spells will be delivered at the same time. Unfortunately, frostbite is not on the wizard spell list, so that's out, and anything that isn't specifically a touch spell won't have the core mechanics of being discharged incidentally on a touch. That leaves me with chill touch and calcific touch, though calcific touch won't work as well with a twf warlock.
Basically, I'm thinking I'll have to make the most of chill touch with metamagic if I really want to capitalize on that.