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<blockquote data-quote="John Little" data-source="post: 6715362" data-attributes="member: 6801342"><p>Wisdom isn't high enough to truly benefit (at least not without a serious rebuilding of things). However, I'm considering taking it anyway; there might be some fun to taking enough alternate features and specialized abilities that I just naturally get two versions of Burning Hands before I even put it into my own spellbook as a regular arcane spell.</p><p></p><p>Elemental Savant might be okay for a few levels if I can keep my wizard level high enough for the purposes of turning. (After all, I couldn't just Rebuke that red dragon, I could also Command it if it was a Wyrmling or Very Young dragon, and that'd be the case for just about any creature with the Fire subtype, but only if they had a small enough number of hit dice compared to my levels in Wizard.) This is, admittedly, unlikely to ever come into play unless the DM throws a bunch of Mephits or something at us (as a Wizard 5/Elemental Savant 5 I could Command fire creatures with only 2 hit dice, I think.)</p><p></p><p>Ignoring all that, though, if we assume that I abandon my weird obsession with an underpowering ability that's really meant more for divine casters, what would your thoughts be on taking levels in Elemental Savant vs. levels in Jade Phoenix Mage? The latter would require more of a rebuild, but there's something undeniably fun about the ability to blow yourself up and then be fine a bit later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Little, post: 6715362, member: 6801342"] Wisdom isn't high enough to truly benefit (at least not without a serious rebuilding of things). However, I'm considering taking it anyway; there might be some fun to taking enough alternate features and specialized abilities that I just naturally get two versions of Burning Hands before I even put it into my own spellbook as a regular arcane spell. Elemental Savant might be okay for a few levels if I can keep my wizard level high enough for the purposes of turning. (After all, I couldn't just Rebuke that red dragon, I could also Command it if it was a Wyrmling or Very Young dragon, and that'd be the case for just about any creature with the Fire subtype, but only if they had a small enough number of hit dice compared to my levels in Wizard.) This is, admittedly, unlikely to ever come into play unless the DM throws a bunch of Mephits or something at us (as a Wizard 5/Elemental Savant 5 I could Command fire creatures with only 2 hit dice, I think.) Ignoring all that, though, if we assume that I abandon my weird obsession with an underpowering ability that's really meant more for divine casters, what would your thoughts be on taking levels in Elemental Savant vs. levels in Jade Phoenix Mage? The latter would require more of a rebuild, but there's something undeniably fun about the ability to blow yourself up and then be fine a bit later. [/QUOTE]
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