Aldurin
2013-05-15, 10:06 PM
So when thinking about the Wild Mage class and caster levels I realized that it's possible with a single level of that and a feat to make a evocation-focused caster beast.
Here's an example to show:
A Elf Sorcerer 5/Wild Mage 1, with his feats being Magical Aptitude and Empower spell to qualify for the class, then he takes Practiced Spellcaster. Now Wild mage makes your effective caster level 3 less but adds 1d6 to it, meaning some of the time you gain a slight advantage. Practiced Spellcaster boosts your caster level by four, but can't push it over your Hit Die. This effectively negates the -3 penalty to caster level from entering Wild Mage.
Now most evocation spells benefit greatly from increased caster level as it gives extra damage die or such, and with this example the elf would have a caster level of 6+1d6, making his minimum 7 (which for evocation is always nice) or 12 (which at level six is a little bit nuts).
Now amplify this nightmare by having an Evocation Spellgifted Kobold take the Greater Draconic Rite of Passage, giving him an caster level buff and an ACTUAL caster level on top. The last level of bonus from Practiced Spellcaster takes away the downside of Spellgifted, and now his effective caster level with evocation spells is 8+1d6, which is pretty cray for damage. Take one more level and throw in Wings of Flurry to the spell list, being a dragonblooded gives that spell an extra +1 to caster level, so the damage output of that spell becomes (10+1d6)d6 untyped damage.
In an area.
That discriminates targets.
At level 7.
Is this actually a legit thing you can do or am I missing something that holds this back?
Here's an example to show:
A Elf Sorcerer 5/Wild Mage 1, with his feats being Magical Aptitude and Empower spell to qualify for the class, then he takes Practiced Spellcaster. Now Wild mage makes your effective caster level 3 less but adds 1d6 to it, meaning some of the time you gain a slight advantage. Practiced Spellcaster boosts your caster level by four, but can't push it over your Hit Die. This effectively negates the -3 penalty to caster level from entering Wild Mage.
Now most evocation spells benefit greatly from increased caster level as it gives extra damage die or such, and with this example the elf would have a caster level of 6+1d6, making his minimum 7 (which for evocation is always nice) or 12 (which at level six is a little bit nuts).
Now amplify this nightmare by having an Evocation Spellgifted Kobold take the Greater Draconic Rite of Passage, giving him an caster level buff and an ACTUAL caster level on top. The last level of bonus from Practiced Spellcaster takes away the downside of Spellgifted, and now his effective caster level with evocation spells is 8+1d6, which is pretty cray for damage. Take one more level and throw in Wings of Flurry to the spell list, being a dragonblooded gives that spell an extra +1 to caster level, so the damage output of that spell becomes (10+1d6)d6 untyped damage.
In an area.
That discriminates targets.
At level 7.
Is this actually a legit thing you can do or am I missing something that holds this back?