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How does the magus perform at high levels?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 5988952" data-attributes="member: 707"><p>So I've been thinking more about Combat Casting, and I'm wondering if it's a feat I can do without.</p><p></p><p>At low levels, it'd mean casting defensively would fail over 50% of the time, which is why I wanted to pick it up early to begin with. But then it occurred to me that at low levels, I'm not going to have the spells to spellstrike every round anyway (or even the ability until level 2).</p><p></p><p>Given that, and the fact that I can cast my spell before or after taking my full attacks, I can just take a 5' step away from the mob to cast a spell after I've attacked, and be out of range of most foe's AoOs, and not have to cast defensively in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Now doing this shuffle means I can only spellstrike every other round, but again it'll be a while before I have the spell slots for back-to-back-to-back spellstrikes anyway. At that point perhaps Combat Casting will look better.</p><p></p><p>What have folks experiences been regarding casting defensively as a magus? Is it something you've had to do often? Did you have Combat Casting? If not, did you wish you'd had it?</p><p></p><p>At high levels I can definitely see situations where you'd want to burn a boss or special target as quickly as possible, and spellstrike every round until the critter is dead. By then though, hopefully I'd have a +4 or +6 int item, and possibly another +2 class bonus to Concentration. And the ability to dump attack bonus into concentration if need be...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 5988952, member: 707"] So I've been thinking more about Combat Casting, and I'm wondering if it's a feat I can do without. At low levels, it'd mean casting defensively would fail over 50% of the time, which is why I wanted to pick it up early to begin with. But then it occurred to me that at low levels, I'm not going to have the spells to spellstrike every round anyway (or even the ability until level 2). Given that, and the fact that I can cast my spell before or after taking my full attacks, I can just take a 5' step away from the mob to cast a spell after I've attacked, and be out of range of most foe's AoOs, and not have to cast defensively in the first place. Now doing this shuffle means I can only spellstrike every other round, but again it'll be a while before I have the spell slots for back-to-back-to-back spellstrikes anyway. At that point perhaps Combat Casting will look better. What have folks experiences been regarding casting defensively as a magus? Is it something you've had to do often? Did you have Combat Casting? If not, did you wish you'd had it? At high levels I can definitely see situations where you'd want to burn a boss or special target as quickly as possible, and spellstrike every round until the critter is dead. By then though, hopefully I'd have a +4 or +6 int item, and possibly another +2 class bonus to Concentration. And the ability to dump attack bonus into concentration if need be... [/QUOTE]
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