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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 1610008" data-attributes="member: 1165">A 13th-level wizard doing this has to give up his highest level spell slots to do so and time the delayed blast fireball perfectly. It's very difficult to do this in a surprise round.Every prestige class is supposed to give up something, too, otherwise they're better in one area and... just as good everywhere else.Persistent Spell can take a spell like divine favor and make it last all day. I'm not seeing a nice +5 luck bonus to all attack and damage rolls as being cheap. You want that kind of power? Pay for it.No it isn't <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Dispel magic works about half the time, and IME a spellcaster is often too busy trying to survive or rescuing another party member to always be able to cast the spell they want <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Even so, I've found when I make a buff Persistent, it usually lasts through two encounters, and it usually takes two dispel magics to get rid of it.A spellbook library is pretty cheap. You pay for some scrolls, and you pay some more gold to transfer extra spells. You get 2 spells per level for cheap (and more at 1st-level).The metamagic rods are way too cheap. I'm amazed WotC thought that being able to cast a maximized meteor swarm before epic levels should be available with a non-epic item. They should boost the cost of those items by 10x to get the balance right.You don't need most of those things to be effective - barring the ones everyone buys (eg almost everyone gets the ring, the cloak, the stat-boosting items, etc). I certainly hope you don't expect the wizard to get a golem bodyguard <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Same here, except the monk.I was talking about the errata to the 3.0 incantatrix. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.See above.Interesting how WotC has a huge playtesting staff, but it fell to you to playtest it again and balance it for your campaign. It's almost like you payed for something that was only half-done.This is the sort of stuff I expected WotC to do - try to balance these things ahead of time. Otherwise I write options for my own campaigns, for free.That would be way too easy to abuse.For the amount of money you have to pay for the half-completed material and having to playtest nearly everything in the book again? No thanks. I'll do it myself (or rather, the players and I can sit down and come up with balanced options) rather than swallow something just because WotC printed it.</blockquote>

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