Artificer's Craft Reserve and the Thought Bottle

[TeslaJr]

The section on the Craft Reserve says that it's refilled whenever the Artificer gains a new level, so I was wondering if after using up your reserve and dropping a few levels from using actual XP, if you used the Thought Bottle to bring you back to where you were ("gaining" a level or however many), would your craft reserve refill?

[Psyren]

Would those truly be "new" levels if you are getting them back after having had them previously?

[TeslaJr]

Would those truly be "new" levels if you are getting them back after having had them previously?

You're not really getting the levels, you're getting the experience to get those levels. The way I see it it's like getting experience from an encounter. And level loss from item creation counts as true level loss, right?

EDIT: If you get dropped a level, when you gain a new one, can you take a different class level than what you had before?

[Graypairofsocks]

The section on the Craft Reserve says that it's refilled whenever the Artificer gains a new level, so I was wondering if after using up your reserve and dropping a few levels from using actual XP, if you used the Thought Bottle to bring you back to where you were ("gaining" a level or however many), would your craft reserve refill?

You can't use enough XP to lose a level in crafting/spellcasting.

[TeslaJr]

You can't use enough XP to lose a level in crafting/spellcasting.

Are you sure? I don't remember reading anything like.

[2xMachina]

You can, however, go kiss a succubus/touch a wight.

[Psyren]

I believe the trick is to store your current level and then play pattycake with a wight for a while. Or something like that, I haven't read thought bottle threads in a while.