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Thread: Magic staffs. I'm ambivalent

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    Barbarian in the Playground
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    Default Re: Magic staffs. I'm ambivalent

    If Dragon is on the table, Dragon 338 has the recharge staff feat, though it might be too late for you to look into getting it. First, a wizard needs to give up their familiar at first level in exchange for an ACF that gets them a staff. Then you need to take craft staff to enchant said staff with spells (craft staff is also a pre req for recharge staff). Then, once you finally get the recharge staff feat, it allows you to expend unused spell slots for the day to recharge your staff, at a rate of one charge per five spell levels. Yes, that means if a staff has a level 6-9 spell in it that costs 1 charge, you can expend a 5th level spell to get a charge back to cast that spell. Also great if you make your staff have spells with expensive material components that you want to spam regularly. Edit: the enchant staff feat is also worth mentioning. Requires the imbued staff ACF as recharge staff does, but when you take enchant staff you choose a spell one level lower than the highest level you can cast (yes, earth spell and similar shenanigans are applicable here). You may cast that spell as an SLA once a day as a standard action, and it functions as if you had cast it yourself. So at the cost of a feat and 100*spell level GP in a ritual, pick a spell that has a casting time of longer than a standard action, expensive material component or focus, and/or a high exp cost. You can now use it once a day for free as a standard action. The feat can be taken multiple times to add a selection of different spells, but it can't be applied to the same spell more than once for multiple uses of the same spell in a day.
    Last edited by Kraken; 2014-12-07 at 03:40 AM.