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<blockquote data-quote="yellowparis" data-source="post: 5054151" data-attributes="member: 47358">I've been obsessing about this with my buffer bard, too.For your money, the single best item is probably the ring of enduring arcana (C.Mage). It increases your caster level by +4 for the purposes of resisting dispels. It costs 6000g, which is manageable at fairly low level, and it's a flat, constant bonus ... always with you.The ring of counterspells is good - it guarantees protection against the first dispel to come your way.&nbsp; Note that if you're in a psionics+magic campaign, it's no good against dispel psionics.Rings of greater counterspells and spell-battle are also good - they offers ways to counterspell or block a spell as it's being cast, so you could just negate a dispel before it even hits you.&nbsp; The ring of spell-battle is particularly nice ... it lets you redirect a spell, so the dispel pointed at you can be retargeted on an enemy.Anything that ups your caster level, obviously.&nbsp; An ioun stone or whatever.&nbsp; Clerics have a bunch of good options: prayer beads and the ankh of ascension come to mind.&nbsp; They're limited use, but good for making your critical spells really rock solid (and the prayer bead of karma is great for a morning buffing routine).In a game with psionics, there's the dispelling buffer power, if you can swing it in an item (or an allied psion).&nbsp; +5 to the DC to dispel you.There's also a metamagic feat ... Fortify Spell, in Complete Arcane.&nbsp; It works like Heighten Spell, except that every +1 to the spell level translates into a +2 to CL.&nbsp; Might not be worth it, but it's an option.There's also Earth Spell, from Races of Stone, but it's probably not so good for this purpose.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="yellowparis, post: 5054151, member: 47358"] I've been obsessing about this with my buffer bard, too. For your money, the single best item is probably the [I]ring of enduring arcana[/I] (C.Mage). It increases your caster level by +4 for the purposes of resisting dispels. It costs 6000g, which is manageable at fairly low level, and it's a flat, constant bonus ... always with you. The [I]ring of counterspells[/I] is good - it guarantees protection against the first dispel to come your way. Note that if you're in a psionics+magic campaign, it's no good against [I]dispel psionics[/I]. Rings of [I]greater counterspells[/I] and [I]spell-battle[/I] are also good - they offers ways to counterspell or block a spell as it's being cast, so you could just negate a dispel before it even hits you. The [I]ring of spell-battle[/I] is particularly nice ... it lets you redirect a spell, so the dispel pointed at you can be retargeted on an enemy. Anything that ups your caster level, obviously. An ioun stone or whatever. Clerics have a bunch of good options: [I]prayer beads[/I] and the [I]ankh of ascension[/I] come to mind. They're limited use, but good for making your critical spells really rock solid (and the [I]prayer bead of karma[/I] is great for a morning buffing routine). In a game with psionics, there's the [I]dispelling buffer[/I] power, if you can swing it in an item (or an allied psion). +5 to the DC to dispel you. There's also a metamagic feat ... Fortify Spell, in Complete Arcane. It works like Heighten Spell, except that every +1 to the spell level translates into a +2 to CL. Might not be worth it, but it's an option. There's also Earth Spell, from Races of Stone, but it's probably not so good for this purpose. [/QUOTE]

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