I was reading Two-Weapon Grace and couldn't help but notice that it works with the Magus' Spell Combat
Prerequisites: Dex 15; Fencing GraceUI, Slashing GraceACG, or Starry GraceUI; Two-Weapon Fighting; Weapon Finesse.
Benefit: You can gain the benefit of the Fencing GraceUI, Slashing GraceACG, or Starry GraceUI feats while fighting with two weapons. Your penalties from two-weapon fighting increase by 2 on all attack rolls you make when doing so, and you can’t decrease the penalties to less than –2 even if other abilities would reduce the penalties further. Add 1/2 your Dexterity bonus to damage with your off-hand weapon instead of 1/2 your Strength modifier. If you attack without using your off-hand weapon, you can use the aforementioned feats despite your other hand being occupied.
In addition, Two-Weapon Grace counts as Double Slice for the purposes of qualifying for the Two-Weapon Rend feat.
Normal: You gain no benefit from the listed feats if you don’t have a free hand.
Having a feat tax of two-weapon fighting is terrible for a magus, so I doubt anyone would ever actually do this in anything other than a meme build. But I thought it was funny.
Pretty sure it still doesn't work, but I'm not gonna get in a 5 million post argument about it
Agreed.
Two-weapon grace does work for magus, BUT ONLY IF you are using it for the dex to damage aspect of one of the prerequisite feats for your mainhand weapon only. Without it, a Magus with Slashing Grace who uses spellcombat would lose the benefit of slashing grace during spell combat since their off-hand would be considered occupied by their spell. Two-weapon grace would let you retain the effects of those feats during spell combat. Two-weapon grace would NOT, however, allow you to use two-wrapon fighting with spellcombat.
I do however see a valid argument against this. Spellcombat does technically involve “attacking with your offhand weapon”, wherein your spell IS your offhand weapon… so from that perspective, the last line of two-weapon grace wouldn’t apply during spell-combat. Since it is only the last line that allows you to treat your off-hand as empty, if you don’t gain its benefit then your offhand is once again not considered empty… but a counter argument is that two-weapon grace specifically allows you to get dex to damage while attacking with two weapons at an added -2 penalty.
Interestingly the feat tax can be greatly alleviated with a 1 level dip into Picaroon Swashbuckler. Despite not getting the effects of two-weapon fighting without wielding a firearm, you are STILL considered to HAVE the feat for prerequisites. And this would give you weapon finesse for free which frees up another feat.