My bad then, didn't want to bother you for nothing. In my defense, you literally never said that you were only talking about level 2 slots:Obviously I meant with regard to 2nd-level slots since they are what Haplo's build is focused around
You need to actually CHECK. Sword Saint suffers a two level delay in its spell progression compared to magus
I thought you were talking about the entire spell progression of the class.Conclusion: a Sword Saint is TWO LEVELS behind a Magus in terms of spell progression.
Still, it seems to me that this "two levels behind" stands true only for the 2nd level 2 slot you should gain at level 5. For example, according to this theory a level 10 Sword Saint should have 4 level 2 base slots:



