Draconic legacy spell level confusion.

[retaliation08]

Deaconic legacy offers spells known based on draconic heritage. It states that you gain the spells at the normal level a caster could learn them, but it gives exceptions to a few spells that say (5th level). Does that mean caster level, character level, or spell level?

[DrMotives]

Spell level. So the character gets the spell as a 5th level spell, instead of what another character without the heritage feat gets it at. Mainly this means they can can cast it earlier, at lower levels.

[retaliation08]

Silver dragon legacy gets Airwalk as a 5th level spell then? One spell level higher than druid and 4 levels later than fly?

That's garbage haha.

[BowStreetRunner]

Silver dragon legacy gets Airwalk as a 5th level spell then? One spell level higher than druid and 4 levels later than fly?

That's garbage haha.

Since Air Walk is normally a divine spell, getting it on an arcane list at all isn't easy. So they up the level of the spell from a divine 4th to an arcane 5th. And while Fly is available at 3rd for arcane casters, it is 1 min/level while Air Walk is 10 min/level so there are going to be times where Air Walk is preferable.

But yeah, it's still mostly garbage.

[Nifft]

As a level 5 spell air walk would be competing with overland flight, which is 1 hour per level.

I guess it's useful if you want someone else to have long-term flight and that other character has an abnormally high movement speed, since air walk lets you fly horizontally at your base speed.