Arcane Classes with Bonus Feat dips?

[Jeffrie]

I'm just considering needing a few metamagic/arcane feats for an epic level character, and wondered if there were any easy dips i like.

For the dip to be useful to me it would need to net me an extra feat in only a few levels, or pay +1 caster level. The feat/s needs to be open for me to pick.

 

[Empirate]

Loremaster comes to mind, one of the secrets is a bonus feat - available at 1st level if your Int is good enough.
Incantatrix and Mage of the Arcane Order 'refund' your bad entry feats (Iron Will and Collaborative Spell, respectively) with bonus feats, and offer extremely helpful class features. These are all full casting PrCs.

 

[Dandu]

One does not dip Incantatrix.

 

[Empirate]

You can dip it for three levels if Metamagic Effect is all you're after, four if you want another bonus feat. But of course, taking all 10 levels provides even more massive benefits (among these are, to adress the OP's question, 4 bonus metamagic feats in total).

 

[Jeffrie]

Shadowcaster from Tome of Magic (IIRC) gives as much as 4 or 5 metamagic feats @ every even level. It's a base class, so needs no req's.

Seems fairly useless to most builds besides that, but if you NEED two feats you could get 'em there.

 

[Empirate]

If we're going there, you can also just get Feat Rogue levels. Or Fighter levels...

 

[Jeffrie]

If we're going there, you can also just get Feat Rogue levels. Or Fighter levels...

How? in my OP i mentioned needing metamagic feats. Is there a way to get metamagic feats with a fighter or rogue progression?

 

[Empirate]

I wasn't serious. Shadowcaster levels are such a subpar option that I thought I'd come up with something that's even worse.
If I read your OP correctly, you'll want full spellcasting progression or as much of it as possible, right? So you should definitely stay away from Shadowcaster levels, as well as anything else that might slow your spellcasting progression.