Divine Favor Q...

[Evilhalfling]

I think that the cap on Divine Favor was put in place because as a 1st level spell, it was a prime candidate for the Quicken Spell feat. And as a quickened spell, it made it even easier for clerics to surpass fighters as melee combatants.

Yup my cleric beater took quicken spell, basically just for DF. Even at +3 the easy stacking made it a requirement for each fight. Against soft targets it was used as a +9 (Power attack) damage bonus, and with his keen scythe...

 

[Nellisir]

The spell gives you a +1 bonus for every three caster levels possessed, with a minimum of +1. As a first level spell, this suggests it gives you a +1 bonus from lvl 1 to lvl 5, then increasing every three levels thereafter. Is that right?

(To point, my friend insisted the +2 kicked in at level 4, which is consistent with the way a lot of spells work in 3.5, but not with the wording of this spell.)

Well, I've been running it wrong too. I always thought it was +1 for every three caster levels (or fraction thereof); otherwise you end up with moronic things like spells that grant a +0 bonus or spells that do 0d6 damage in the unlikely event they're cast by a 1st level caster. But I guess that's rules for you.

And I thought DF was capped because of persistent spell, not quicken spell?

 

[DarkKestral]

Well, Divine Favor and Divine Might were usually Persistant'ed using turn attempts and divine metamagic with some other things thrown in so that they could bypass max spell level restrictions.