Originally Posted by
Zanos
Enhanced undead is okay but I'd rather take corpsecrafter to cover the strength bonus. The HP does stack, but if you stack some metamagic on a desecrate your undead should have plenty of hit points as it is. Fell energy desecrate and corpsecrafter will get you to +8, which is the same hit points per HD as a barbarian with 26 CON.
My personal opinion is that the skeletal cohort that specialist wizard gets is atrocious. It isn't created by a necromancy spell so corpsecrafter won't apply, so at level 1 you're stuck with a 6 hp minion that is destroyed when it hits 0 that doesn't heal naturally, and has +1 str and dex mods. You have to ban two schools of magic to get it, and it's going to be pretty rapidly outclassed by anything you can make with spells later. Even at 20th level, you're gonna have a 20HD skeleton with 19 str and dex and 12 natural armor. The numbers on it just don't work out.