Dervish of Dawn + magus worth it?


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This may have been asked before, but I am unable to find anything.

Has anyone made one?

Or is pure magus better?

Dervish of Dawn gives +2 att/damage and saves a feat, but loses 1 caster level.

I'm considering going 1/x dervish of dawn/magus.

Thanks for any advice.

Silver Crusade

It's better at low levels (you actually save 2 feats — Weapon Finesse and Dervish Dance), and worse at high levels IMHO.


Bump.

Anyone out there make one of these? Any other thoughts?


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I do not think it's worth it.

First, you will make your spell and BAB progression lag one level behind a full magus, which means:
Each three levels, a full magus will cast a spell level superior to you, which will be A LOT more powerful than a mere +2
Each four levels, a full magus will have one more attack per round, which is ALSO more powerfulk than a mere +2
=> This means that at levels 1,4,7,8,10,12,13,16,19 and 20 you'll be obviously weaker than a full magus... that's 10 levels out of 20, half of the time

Then, second, even on the remaining levels, you're going to have less spell slots than a full magus, on a class that tends to be spell slot starved due to trying to cast a spell each round without having a full spellcaster pool... which is an advantage that is going to grow at each level, in exchange of a -static- +2 bonus... well +1 to hit/+2 to damage in fact, because of your -1 BAB

And, finaly, the worst of worst: if -ANY- of your teamate starts to provide morale bonuses, your +2 is going to be overwriten by it, and all those losses would have been just for... nothing.

Probably nobody ever tried it, for those same reasons.


Thanks for the input!

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