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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 1669228" data-attributes="member: 16221">Wow.  That's... quite a feat.  I'm really not sure how the balance on that would go.  On the one hand... no new spells to be learned as a wizard.  On the other hand, all those spells already learned are now available for spontaneous casting.  Other the OTHER other hand, those requirements are pretty steep as well.Hm.  Once the wizard in question gains access to level 9 spells and learns wish, this seems almost a nobrainer... since wish will enable him to continue to learn spells, and of course epic spells will come with epic levels.  It will require that skill focus, which a wizard might not normally want to take, and a level of sorcerer, likewise, but other than that...So lets say CL19.  All those spells learned over all these years, now spontaneously castable.  The extendability of the wizard is supposed to be compensated by the fact that he gets few spells/day to cast, and also that those spells must be memorized.  That compensation is now taken away.  That's a HUGE power boost, I think.  And by this level, he likely has the majority of the spells he wants anyway (and any he really needs in the future, well, that's why he waited until he grabbed Wish).I think it may be too powerful, and I'm not sure what could be done to weaken it.  It seems to me that wizards should remain having to cast from memory, and if they want spontaneous, that they should choose Sorc instead.Perhaps a feat to allow a sorc to use Int as the primary casting stat?  That might be more balanced.</blockquote>

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