RogueJK
It's not "Rouge"... That's makeup.
When you hit Wizard 2, you want to be able to pick up 2nd level spells. Getting up to R3 for Arcane Trickster is required before you hit W2.
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You can either pick up Shadowblade at 6 and keep it as one of your AT spell slots from here on out, or you can snag it at level 5 as W2. Since we get a buff to cantrips at level 5, I postponed Shadowblade to level 6 so I could use it as an AT spell slot.
Your spell progression is a bit off, Irregular_Gnoll. Keep in mind that while you combine your Wizard and Arcane Trickster spellcaster levels when calculating your spells slots, your spells known are decided by your levels in each class separately.
So, for example, to learn a 2nd level spell like Shadow Blade, you must be either Wizard 3 or Arcane Trickster 7. Prior to that, at something like W2/R3, you will have 2nd level spell slots that can be used for upcasting 1st level spells, but you won't have any 2nd level spells known. Nor would you be able to scribe 2nd level spells into your spellbook yet, if you were to find a 2nd level spell scroll.
In addition, even once you had access to 2nd level spells at something like W3/R3, you could only learn them as Wizard spells. You couldn't take a 2nd level spell like Shadow Blade as an AT spell at W3/R3, because you don't have any AT 2nd level spells known until R7.
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