Magus question

[Baron Bob Blitzkrieg]

Does spellstrike work on ranged touch attack spells as well? It should, but i don't think it does.

[Batailleuse]

Originally posted by Baron Bob Blitzkrieg:

Does spellstrike work on ranged touch attack spells as well? It should, but i don't think it does.

No it doesnt, only the arcane archer work with ranger touch spells.

both magus and sword saint have the spellstrike only work on melee touch attack.

[Baron Bob Blitzkrieg]

And just like that it kills the Magus for me.I guess i'll roll sorcerer or something.

[Valdorel]

The Magus in tabletop had an arcana choice that allowed it to use ranged touch spells with spellstrike called Close Range. Not sure if that's in the game though.

[Baron Bob Blitzkrieg]

I'll take a look at it, because that sounds like my cup of tea. I did forget about that Arcana, but it's been a while since i last tooled up a Magus.

[Batailleuse]

There is an arcana for longer range (so turns touch to ranged touch) but haven't seen the contrary.

So far there's a lot of imbalance anyway.

Trickster mage can do some 20-30dmg by lvl5 with a lvl0 spammable spell it's ridiculous.

Even a gold dragon sorcerer with evoc focus and using fire spells does less with a lvl2-3 fire/evocation spell.

Magus felt meh to me... Except for maybe the Scion and I'm pretty sure the dragon or abysal are pretty. Much the only useful ones

[Baron Bob Blitzkrieg]

Arcane Trickster? They're meant to be sneak attack wizards/sorcs anyways, so i'm not too suprised there. I'm just a bit sad about some of the inbalances that were copied or made into the game. As stated: Magus comes across as mediocre, not because of the game but because of how Pathfinder kneecapped the class in the early-game.

[Ponzini]

So far eldritch archer is the most OP thing I have played. They can use ranged touch attacks with each arrow shot.

[BlackAnthrax666]

Spellstrike with Ranged Touch attacks works only with Eldritch Archer and it's correct like that.

Originally posted by Ponzini:

So far eldritch archer is the most OP thing I have played. They can use ranged touch attacks with each arrow shot.

Really? Maybe in the higher levels, but for now the bear treant keeps ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up pretty badly. It has stats like a CR 8 monster for APL 2 ... I haven't played the AP so I don't know if it's a legit Kingmaker encounter or if owlcat just wanted to ♥♥♥♥ up their customers.
The only way i can damage him is with Acid Splash. which doesn't really do much to him.

[Khavi]

Originally posted by Ponzini:

So far eldritch archer is the most OP thing I have played. They can use ranged touch attacks with each arrow shot.

It's still only a single spell cast a round (at a -2 to hit with Mage BaB), and if you're using spellstrike, it converts touch AC spells to normal AC since you've gotta attack as a part of the spell (but then you get bow/crossbow crit).

[Erikkustrife]

Originally posted by Spyglass:

Originally posted by Ponzini:

So far eldritch archer is the most OP thing I have played. They can use ranged touch attacks with each arrow shot.

It's still only a single spell cast a round (at a -2 to hit with Mage BaB), and if you're using spellstrike, it converts touch AC spells to normal AC since you've gotta attack as a part of the spell (but then you get bow/crossbow crit).

Actually it doesnt. They cast the spell like normal, and then make a ranged arrow attack, its how they got it to work in game. But it can still crit.