Is Arcane Disciple Broken?

[Angel Tarragon]

If a wizard that worshipped Pelor and has a Neutral Good alignment, he would be eligible to take Arcane Disciple with the Healing domain. So now the wizard has access to healing spells, doesn't this seem a bit powerful? Which of youe DMs out there allow/disallow this feat and what is your reasoning behind this?

 

[glass]

If a wizard that worshipped Pelor and has a Neutral Good alignment, he would be eligible to take Arcane Disciple with the Healing domain. So now the wizard has access to healing spells, doesn't this seem a bit powerful? Which of youe DMs out there allow/disallow this feat and what is your reasoning behind this?

IMHO, not only is it not 'a bit powerful', it is terribly week.

EDIT: Because many of the best feats on the domain lists or nicked from the wizards list anyway, and because it intoduces a Wis requirement, but mostly because you can only use the spells once per day!


glass.

 

[Thanee]

It's absolutely not broken.

You can only cast one of those spells for every spell level each day, which is a pretty good limitation (and in turn makes the feat entirely pointless for spontaneous casters, like the Sorcerer).

You need a high enough WISDOM score to even be able to cast these spells, that means at least a decent score has to be placed in Wisdom.

The only class, where you could argue about brokenness is the Warmage, but even for those, I wouldn't really consider it broken, just very good.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Wish]

It's not broken. If anything, a little weak. It is a component in one rather broken build - the high level fighter/mage with Arcane Strike, Power Attack, and wraithstrike (combined with the War domain for divine power and righteous might). But it's just a part of that build, and all the parts really need to come together to make it work. If your wizard is using it for a handful of healing spells per day, I'd say it's doing exactly what it's intended to do. He won't match a real cleric for healing, but is a useful emergency source.