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Message: <blockquote data-quote="animesuperman" data-source="post: 252450" data-attributes="member: 5874">Couple of things on epic level spells.  When creating a spell you can add mitigating factors to the spell to reduce the spell dc, some of which are taking damage, increasing the casting time, incresing the # of casters involved, or adding an xp price to the spell.  THese combine help to lower DC's but end up takin a sever toll on the character, that's the tradeoff.  Compare this to wish, every 20th mage may have it in his spell book, but the cost of using the spell (and the possibility of the GM twisting  your wish) mitigate the usefullness of the spell).  Second Epic Spell Focus helps to bridge the gap some as far as DC's go.Third Epic level spells count for DC's and such as 10th level spells, and yes they are more powerful than 9th lvl spells.  However You can only cast a number of epic spells per day equal to you ranks in knowledge arcana or religion divide by 10 (for arcane and divine casters respectively).  Thus you don't really "prepare" an epic spell from what i understand you can cast any epic spell you know a certain number of times a day.Furthermore you need to get epic spell casting just to be able to cast or develop epic spells.  To get higher level spell slots you need Improved spellcasting</blockquote>