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Originally Posted by
ciopo
if you pick ultimate magus, I suggest going divine bard 1 / wizard X / sublime chord 1 / ultimate magus Y, because the way sublime chord manipulates caster levels double dips when combo'ed with ultimate magus. (it's importnat that your only arcane classes are wizard and sublime chord and no others, because of how ultimate magus works)
the biggest impediment to entry on a wizard base for sublime chord are the skill requirements, if you want to do it in a timely faciton (i.e. ,pulling a bard 1 / wizard 9 / sublime chord 1 / ultimate magus 9 build at 20th level is quite hard to pull the requirements off)