Hey guys, quick question, is a dip into MoMs Monk worth it, if you plan to put all other levels into Kensai Bladebound Magus.
I realize Monk doesnt work well due to Flurry of blows not mixing with Spell combat but if you went MoMs monk you wouldnt have flurry of blows, and could access any style chain.
Second problem would likely be the swift action being eaten in the starting round, which Magus can use for a number of other things but assuming your fine with eating that swift are there any other issues?
Unarmed Fighter is a better dip if you just want easy access to a style chain. The limitations of Bladebound get worse when you multiclass, since you're delaying your weapon's fixed stats.
I don't know what you're going for with style feats, but going with a normal strength-based Magus in mithral medium or heavy would tie up less feats. A strength-based Hexcrafter Magus can use Hex Strike with Evil Eye quite effectively, even if they usually strike with a weapon.
Depends on the style feats you want to use.
A couple potential problems:
-With only a single level dip into MoMS, which is really the only feasible option if you want to retain passable magus progression, you'll be spending the first *two* swift actions of your combat to activate both style feats, not just 1.
-The magus is already a little feat hungry. I honestly doubt there's room in most builds for two style feat trees.
If you dipped 2 levels, but also got the trait Magical Knack, you'd still lose 2 levels of spellcasting and Black Blade progression, but at least not lose caster level, and you would get 2 bonus style feats.
-Your to hit takes a relative -1 from lost base attack at all levels excepting character level 5, 9, 13 and 17.
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Does nobody use Pathfinder Unchained Fractional Base Bonus Progression? (I know PFS doesn't, for some strange reason, but this seems like a natural to use when not explicitly forbidden.)
Wanted: A better Monk-Magus hybrid archetype than the existing Esoteric Magus (which is a cool idea but has some serious flaws in implementation, including replacing all bonus feats).
Yes, but not very many bonus feats (just 3), and Magus Arcana don't cover Combat Styles, and then Esoteric Magus (which otherwise might be somewhat attractive) DOESN'T get bonus feats. And no Magus archetype (nor any archetype of anything else that I can think of, other than Monk of Many Styles) lets you use more than 1 Combat Style at the same time, which I think is part of what the OP wanted this for; unfortunately, doing 2 Combat Styles (whether simultaneously or not) means needing a lot of feats.
A Magus who goes Frostbite can even get decent use out of flurry, since when Frostbite is already active they can flurry instead of needing to use spell combat for the extra attack.
You probably wouldn't want to run around inviting attacks it you were a strength-based Kensai using a temple sword. With no armor you would probably really want Crane Style.