faceroll
2010-01-21, 09:22 PM
I recently acquired DR 313 on a 3.5 purchasing spree, and it has this sweet dual progression manifester/arcane casting prestige class called the mind mage. It loses two levels on both sides of the progression, and requires you to lose another 2 levels of wizard casting and one level of manifesting to get in. Normally, this is a sin, but I think I found a way around this being a problem.
First, here's the build:
wizard1/psion 3/ cerebremancer 2/mindmage 5
You are level 11, and you cast as a 6th level wizard and an 8th level psion.
The first step to some real ultimate power is to cast dweomer of transference on yourself. It's a 4th level spell, but you can use the mind mage's fifth level ability to spend 3 power points and prepare it in a 3rd level spell slot. While you're at it, put a mnemonic enhancer in a 3rd level spell slot the same way.
Now cast the dweomer and use your second level mind mage ability to spend 18 power points to persist it. Spam a bunch of spell effects into it. A wand or a warlock friend, or, if you can do it, use the spell Extended Charge, from the Complete Book of Eldritch Might, which lets you cast spells from a wand without using charges. After you are all juiced up on power points, cast your mnemonic enhancer and prepare 6 level 0 spell slots, which you then fill with mnemonic enhancers using the 5th level ability, and cast those to get more spell slots which you then.... Well, you get the picture.
So now we've got ninth level spells in 0 level spell slots, and more power points & spell slots than we can use. What next? The only real use I can see out of sacrificing all those spells would be to a) turn into a worm that walks and b) mitigating epic magic by a lot.
First, here's the build:
wizard1/psion 3/ cerebremancer 2/mindmage 5
You are level 11, and you cast as a 6th level wizard and an 8th level psion.
The first step to some real ultimate power is to cast dweomer of transference on yourself. It's a 4th level spell, but you can use the mind mage's fifth level ability to spend 3 power points and prepare it in a 3rd level spell slot. While you're at it, put a mnemonic enhancer in a 3rd level spell slot the same way.
Now cast the dweomer and use your second level mind mage ability to spend 18 power points to persist it. Spam a bunch of spell effects into it. A wand or a warlock friend, or, if you can do it, use the spell Extended Charge, from the Complete Book of Eldritch Might, which lets you cast spells from a wand without using charges. After you are all juiced up on power points, cast your mnemonic enhancer and prepare 6 level 0 spell slots, which you then fill with mnemonic enhancers using the 5th level ability, and cast those to get more spell slots which you then.... Well, you get the picture.
So now we've got ninth level spells in 0 level spell slots, and more power points & spell slots than we can use. What next? The only real use I can see out of sacrificing all those spells would be to a) turn into a worm that walks and b) mitigating epic magic by a lot.