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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 6370214" data-attributes="member: 1210">For clarity, it isn't that a given feature &quot;requires X number of class levels&quot;; it's that a given feature only appears once you've reached a certain level in the class. Nowhere does the PH mention a certain number of class levels being required. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the PH never mentions the concept of &quot;class levels&quot; vs. &quot;Just levels&quot;, with the exception of one or two class features that specifically mention, for instance, &quot;your warlock level&quot;.I suspect he can. Between smites and other various damage-boosting class abilities, I think a paladin 15 is generally going to be better off smacking bad guys than zapping them. Note that I've neither played nor playtested 5e at the high end yet, though, so I may end up being wrong.A spell's caster level doesn't really matter in 5e; only the slot that it's cast in. And casting a 1st level spell in a 3rd level slot is generally inferior to using that slot on a 3rd level spell.Unless explicitly stated otherwise, I would read &quot;level&quot; to mean &quot;level&quot;. Not spell level, not class level, just plain level. Until you find class level defined somewhere in the PH- and you won't- I'd discard the entire notion of it being the answer to any rules-related questions on 5e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 6370214, member: 1210"] For clarity, it isn't that a given feature "requires X number of class levels"; it's that a given feature only appears once you've reached a certain level in the class. Nowhere does the PH mention a certain number of class levels being required. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the PH never mentions the concept of "class levels" vs. "Just levels", with the exception of one or two class features that specifically mention, for instance, "your warlock level". I suspect he can. Between smites and other various damage-boosting class abilities, I think a paladin 15 is generally going to be better off smacking bad guys than zapping them. Note that I've neither played nor playtested 5e at the high end yet, though, so I may end up being wrong. A spell's caster level doesn't really matter in 5e; only the slot that it's cast in. And casting a 1st level spell in a 3rd level slot is generally inferior to using that slot on a 3rd level spell. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, I would read "level" to mean "level". Not spell level, not class level, just plain level. Until you find class level defined somewhere in the PH- and you won't- I'd discard the entire notion of it being the answer to any rules-related questions on 5e. [/QUOTE]

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