mystic ranger / wizard 1..

[animewatcha]

So I might be able to start mystic ranger / wizard 1 / arcane archer 2 soon. Shooting star and sword of the arcane order. Bow.
Race: Silverbrow human to gain the bonus from primal spells. Gotta love blindsense. Or some version of elf. Or illumians for the + 2 caster level sigil.

Dragon mag/comp is a yes. Exalted and Vile no. ToB is a no. All other sources from WOTC or archive is yes.

Starting at level 5.

What is the best use of the level 3 slots and above between ranger and wizard spells? Part of me thinks have a nuke option. Other part of me thinks BFC/support.
Level 2 I know of explosive runes ( with clever usage ), web.
Level 3 I am thinking fireball since 1d4+1 arrowsplit arrows double due to splitting enchantment combined with level 2 ability of arcane archer for 4-10 fireballs with 10d6 per fireball.
What makes sense for spell level though.
level 4 no idea what are good spells here.
level 5. Unless control winds to bring down a tornado or Evard black tentacles, I'm thinking these are more useful as more slots for level 3 and 4 spells.

Also, the level 1 wizard dip.
What should the dip be? Part of me is thinking Domain generalist for extra 1st level spells. Or specialist something like Evoker for more area damage bombing?

[Ruethgar]

Firstly, you need to make sure a Mystic Shooting Star Ranger is ok by the DM because by RAW it can't work because the class features are delayed and so you cannot substitute them at the Shooting Star substitution levels. Second, you need to ask your DM on their interpretation of Sword of the Arcane Order, it isn't as big of a deal since you are taking a Wizard level anyway but you should be clear on the interpretations at the table. The most common interpretation is the most powerful, giving Ranger full access to the Wizard list, however that's not exactly RAW.

It lets you prepare Wizard spells in Ranger slots, so it gives a Mystic Theurge Wizard/Ranger more slots for Wizard, however it does not let you cast Wizard spells. So a Wizard 1/Mystic Ranger 4 would only be able to cast 1st level Wizard spells from their Ranger slots even if they made the Spellcraft DC to scribe a 2nd level in the books and prepare it in a Ranger slot because the Wizard spells class feature is what's allowing you to actually cast Wizard spells, not SotAO or the Ranger spells class feature, and a 1st level Wizard can only cast 1st level spells.

As to the Wizard level, as a general rule never an Evoker specialist. Conjuration is almost always a better blaster if you really want that.

[animewatcha]

Ran it by him and he is okay with it when things like dragon mag are available. The bonus spell slots I can see what you mean in regards for shooting star, but the extra caster levels is okay when what I can see. Group has done and cast wizard spell slots in ranger slots of appropriate level before ( fireball in ranger 3 slot ).

Why conjurer when I won't be summoning?

Also how would a 10 mystic ranger / 10 chameleon be? or 8 mystic / 10 chameleon / 2 arcane archer?

[Inevitability]

On race, I'm fairly sure you have to be an elf, as arcane archer requires it. I personally recommend fire elf, for an array of +2 int, +2 dex, -2 con and -2 cha. In addition, you gain all regular elf goodies and resistance to an incredibly common element.

Dragonborn fire elf is also an option; it'd change your stat modifiers to +2 int, -2 cha.