So most likely Human, Weapon Finesse/Homebrew Feat at 1, Arcane Strike at 3, and I dunno what past that. The DM's making a semi-homebrewed feat that is essentially Dervish Dance, without the dance requirement and let's it work with anything that works with Weapon Finesse (I want to use a rapier). And no, I was never planning on taking a familiar.

In fact when I told him about it his response was, 'Awesome, I'm looking forward to playing your Black Blade.' So I think he's excited too. Yeah it's something I've discussed with him, and he seems to be fine with it. The only major drawbacks are that you can't take the familiar arcana, or use spell storing on your main weapon, at least in PFS play.

And you've got an arcana floating at 12th to grab spell blending if you want. So what are you missing, spell blending? If you took arcane accuracy at 3rd instead, you still can't pick up great spells taking spell blending at 6th unless you're a kensai who badly wants mage armor. You can pick up arcane accuracy at 6th, accurate strike at 9th, and bane blade at 15th without trouble. The other thing is, there aren't a lot of good magus arcana. Low wealth campaign? That scaling weapon is going to be a huge asset. Have to leave your weapons at the door? Not so scary now. Imprisoned? Oh, I'll just teleport my sword to my hand, thank you. Whatever uses you can come up with for a talking sword.ĭepending on campaign, the 'minor' features of the blackblade can be incredibly useful. Unbreakable and Teleport Blade, two great insurance abilities. Life Drinker, which is an AWESOME capstone and much better than the magus's actual capstone. Alertness (Not a great feat, but still a feat) So the overall cost is equal to two feats, extra magus arcana and extra arcane pool. But wait! You can siphon two arcane points back from your blade during the day by 20th, reducing the overall difference to 2 arcane points. If we break it down point for point, your arcane pool is 4 points smaller at 20th level, and it costs you an arcana. It's going to be low level to start, for sure. Running our of resources, We're starting at level 1, so I guess I have a bit of time to decide. I'm just worried about spreading myself thin. Now I was under the impression that you couldn't tap into the blade's arcane pool until later, and that involves a very specific action to do so. What are you giving up - a base arcane pool of 4 at 12th level rather then 6? Flexibility in exchange for power, perhaps? Alertness and a bit more in exchange for an Arcana (which the Extra Arcana feat demonstrates to be considered the equivalent of a feat - we all know The World Needs More Lerts)? It all sounds fair to me. It doesn't look that bad to me - it has some interesting and weird abilities beyond being unbreakable (including the ability to offer a rude shock to most forms of damage reduction, and at the very highest levels, the ability to restore arcane points in the vampiric fashion, and you say that's where and how it 'drops off'), and the Black Blade even has its own arcane pool (however small) to buttress your own. I'm nowhere close to first-time poster or first-time player, but I confess to being interested in this as well. I just want to make sure that I'm not going to ruin the class for myself in the process. But it's so cool from a flavor perspective. So I ask you this: Is the build really *that* bad? Will the drop in arcane points and the loss of my level 3 arcana set me back that far? I realize there's a ton of hesitation since the Black Blade can't actually be enchanted with any permanent enchantments, and on top of that you're more limited by your arcane points so you can't even apply temporary enchantments as often.

It seems like it takes a significant power drop for a subpar weapon that never breaks. That being said, things that I've read about the Bladebound have been less than stellar. I also like the general theme of heirlooms, magic weapons, ad weapons that grow with you vs being pciked out at the magic mart, so the Bladebound archtype screamed out at me. I love the gish types, and I think magus does a splendid job of blending the two together. I played a metric ton of 3.5e, so I'm familiar with the basic rules of Pathfinder, but this is my first time delving into an actual game. Hi there! First time poster here for a first time player.

Mythic bladebound magus build