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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d12" data-source="post: 1044494" data-attributes="member: 657">I think it will totally balance out in play.  A 13th level wizard has limited wish.  A 13th level EK doesn't.  That's a pretty big power break.  The wizard probably has a higher Int than the EK (especially if you're using point buy) so his DCs will be higher.  The wizard has sunk ALL of his magical tiems into things that make hiim a better wizard: wands, rings, bracers, etc....  The EK has bought a magic weapon here, a wand there.  The wizard is going to get through SR more often than the EK.  Look at it this way - If the party walks into a room of mooks and the EK and the wizard both cast fireball, the result is going to be very similar.  But when they go up against the BBEG and the wizard casts his highest level spell (say, Otto's irresistable Dance) and the EK can't bring that kind of power to the table, everyone sees who has the real magical juice and who doesn't.   This prestige class just makes the fighter/mage playable again without making it a must-have.  We aren't going to see everyone trading in their archmages for E Knights.  It ain't gonna happen.  Why?  Because the EK appeals to people like me who want to run decent fighter/mages and don't mind playing third fiddle in the party.  I think its cool that the character I posted could polymorph into a troll and wade into combat with a decent BAB or haste himself, cast true strike and then power attack for vicious damage a few times per day (even in troll form!).  But his wizard friend is gonna be casting cone of cold and wall of force and prying eyes.  His barbarian friend is going to be power attacking EVERY round and he won't need to waste time with true strike - he's just gonna swing away and do it much better than the EK.</blockquote>

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