Geomancer and Arcane Strike

[yougi]

Could a Geomancer use his divine spells to trigger Arcane Strike, as per Spell Versatility?

[Yuki Akuma]

Arcane Strike doesn't actually specify you have to sacrifice an arcane spell.

However, if your DM says that it has to be arcane, I feel it's fully within theme for the Geomancer to be able to sacrifice a divine spell to power it anyway.

[yougi]

Arcane Strike doesn't actually specify you have to sacrifice an arcane spell.

However, if your DM says that it has to be arcane, I feel it's fully within theme for the Geomancer to be able to sacrifice a divine spell to power it anyway.

Darn it, you're right! Who knew?

What about the pre-requisites, though?

[Yuki Akuma]

He'll meet the prerequisites for Arcane Strike after two levels of Geomancer. You need to be able to cast arcane spells to be a Geomancer anyway.

[yougi]

He'll meet the prerequisites for Arcane Strike after two levels of Geomancer.

Not necessarily: Geomancer boosts Arcane OR Divine, not both. And I was hoping to boost my Divine casting, as the character I'm thinking of is a Duskblade/Cleric, and gaining full casting levels is better than partial casting levels.

So I guess my actual question is (third try's the charm, I hope!): Can a Geomancer use Spell Versatility to fulfill a feat/PrC's pre-req's?

[Vaz]

At the time of casting you change the parameters. So yes. If it requires "cast Arcane spells" then it qualifies.

Note that classes which only advance Arcane casting still only advance arcane casting, Spell Versatility doesn't allow Arcane progression to advance Divine.

Note that you must have Arcane casting to enter Geomancer anyway.