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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 2029899" data-attributes="member: 2525">The spell slot to cast the actual spell doesn't change, but to get the feat placed on the spell, when you prepare the spell, you have to at least have access to a high enough level of spells to be able to replace those levels with turning attempts.Pretty much all replacement mechanisms in the game work this way.  You cannot bypass implied minimum caster level restrictions, even if you have something special to power those spells with.On a related issue, can you imagine the massive power creep in magic items if you could bypass the minimum caster level this way?  A wand of persistant Divine Favor wouldn't cost much more than a normal wand of Divine Favor (because you would not need to be the higher level to make the wand), and yet would have the in-game effect of being essentially a constant item of Divine Favor.A DM would have to be insane to pretend that divine metamagic let's you replace spell levels that you do not have access to yet.  Just because it doesn't state that you still need to meet minimum caster requirements doesn't mean that the rules of game context should be ignored.  You ALWAYS need to meet minimum caster levels.Does anyone have an official ruling on this issue?</blockquote>