AuraSeer said:
If a wrong passage in the ELH implied that characters became epic at level 12, and the FAQ corrected it, would you insist on taking epic feats for a Wiz13?
If there were no contradictory statements in teh entire rest of the book -- yes. A FAQ is not an errata, no matter how much WOTC wants to misuse them as such, and
changes to what the book says belong in an
errata not a FAQ.
If WOTC wants to be too lazy to actually
errata a book, that's their problem, not mine.
So; when such a ruling is placed in an actual for real
errata, it will change what the book says. Until then, that answer is merely a recommended house rule, and nothing more.
To top it off, I don't like it because it FURTHER penalises multiclass characters, far more than they deserve. God
forbid, after all, that someone should want to DIVERSIFY their character, rather than continue down the road of increasing=-one-dimensionality.
Feh.
I don't thionk that section of rules is a "mistake", I think someone (Andy perhaps) either never liked it, or, didn't understand it properly before the book was printed, and
then discovered they didn't like it.
So, they try to "fix" things after the fact, without admitting they did something wrong. Instead, they prefer to imply people are stupid and "just don't understand the book" or whatever.
I understand it quite well; I also understand that the FAQ is (needlessly) in direct contradiction of the book. So, I choose to ignore the unneccessary so-called "fix", and play by the book as published.
Simple concept in play here: if it ain't broke,
don't fix it.