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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 6022758" data-attributes="member: 707">I definitely find it helpful, so thank you!Do you mostly only find yourself needing to cast Shocking Grasp in melee range?&nbsp; I've been looking at the DC requirements of Concentration, and even with Combat Casting and a 19 int it seems to take a while to get the failure chance to drop to zero.My current plan is to take Weapon Diligence (+3 to Concentration checks) at 3rd-level, but I'm wondering if I shouldn't be worrying about dropping my failure rate on my highest level spells, since those are less likely to be necessary to cast in melee range...You know this is very good advice I haven't seen before.&nbsp; Although I do get to add my dex to my CMD, I'm still going to be hurting due to my 3/4 BAB at higher levels, and with a d8 hit die getting swallowed whole by something would be...unwelcome.&nbsp; I'll have to look into carrying a salve myself, once my PC has the cash for contingency items.Fair enough.&nbsp; My PC evolved the opposite way actually.&nbsp; I started wanting to go with a strength-based magus, but the fact that the campaign is going to revolve around airships made me want to go for a more lightly-armored, faster-type character, rather than a plate tank.Currently I've been rethinking a few of my choices later down the line.&nbsp; Arcane Strike I have set to take at level 11, which is maybe 6-9 extra damage per level.&nbsp; The thing is, I haven't been able to come up with anything that would be better.&nbsp; Once-a-day metamagic seems fairly terrible in a campaign with several encounters, and such a setup actually increases the value of Arcane Strike as there'll be more rounds where it can be used, letting those little plinks add up.I considered Critical Strike, but again...only once a day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 6022758, member: 707"] I definitely find it helpful, so thank you! Do you mostly only find yourself needing to cast [i]Shocking Grasp[/i] in melee range? I've been looking at the DC requirements of Concentration, and even with Combat Casting and a 19 int it seems to take a while to get the failure chance to drop to zero. My current plan is to take Weapon Diligence (+3 to Concentration checks) at 3rd-level, but I'm wondering if I shouldn't be worrying about dropping my failure rate on my highest level spells, since those are less likely to be necessary to cast in melee range... You know this is very good advice I haven't seen before. Although I do get to add my dex to my CMD, I'm still going to be hurting due to my 3/4 BAB at higher levels, and with a d8 hit die getting swallowed whole by something would be...unwelcome. I'll have to look into carrying a salve myself, once my PC has the cash for contingency items. Fair enough. My PC evolved the opposite way actually. I started wanting to go with a strength-based magus, but the fact that the campaign is going to revolve around airships made me want to go for a more lightly-armored, faster-type character, rather than a plate tank. Currently I've been rethinking a few of my choices later down the line. Arcane Strike I have set to take at level 11, which is maybe 6-9 extra damage per level. The thing is, I haven't been able to come up with anything that would be better. Once-a-day metamagic seems fairly terrible in a campaign with several encounters, and such a setup actually increases the value of Arcane Strike as there'll be more rounds where it can be used, letting those little plinks add up. I considered Critical Strike, but again...only once a day. :( [/QUOTE]

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