So heritor knight has "Whenever the heritor knight makes a melee attack as a standard action, she can apply the effects of Improved Vital Strike to that attack."
A melee touch attack is a standard action... does it do anything to shocking grasp, for example? ...and if it doesnt directly, would it with Mythic improved vital strike?
(I'm assuming itll be something about the touch attack not actually having damage die/being a weapon, or the spell effect actually being separate simultaneous that stops it?)
I'm not considering trying it, even if it did (somehow) work, which I dont think it will, I'm just curious about what the RAW is.
Vital Strike only applies to weapon damage. Shocking Grasp isn't a weapon.
As far as Mythic is concerned...unclear. And mythic rules are bad anyways.
My ruling for the mythic would be that it still doesn't apply because shocking grasp isn't a weapon. Mythic Vital Strike is for things like the Flaming weapon enhancement (which wouldn't normally be doubled on a critical hit).
That makes sense, I suppose if touch attacks actually had damage dice it might be a different story. Weird how they're treated as weapons for only certain things.
Thank you for the swift response Claxon. :)