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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5353164" data-attributes="member: 78958">You should, as a rule, never burn three feats on small numerical bonuses. Feats should be things that give you new powers or options, not things that give piddly plus-ones to whatever. So skip Spell Focus & Co., unless they're prereqs for something you want. Take Extend Spell, Persist Spell, and DMM: Persist instead, and your character will have a whole world of new possibilities open up - instead of slightly harder save DCs for some spells (AND lower caster level for others...).That said, a one level dip in Shadow Adept can be useful, as it gets you all shadow feats at once. These can indeed come in handy, but it still depends on the campaign and what the DM allows you to do with them. In my campaign, there's an evil Sorcerer NPC (Enchantment focused), who's taken a level of Shadow Adept. Not for the save DCs, mind you, but for Insidious Magic: everybody has to make caster level checks to even notice her spells with Detect Magic or similar divinations. This is very useful to said NPC, as she's a spy currently infiltrating the good guys' base.Think about what you want to be able to do first. You want to make very, very sure your enemies don't resist your spells? So why are you casting "save negates" spells in the first place, instead of buffs, BC, summons etc.? Sure, if you want to focus purely on save-or-suck spells, Spell Focus etc. are OK - but they're still not the best option. Why not just cast Owl's Wisdom instead? Coz you could also persist Divine Power then, or Vigorous Circle, or any number of super-powerful buffs instead of getting a meaningless +2 to save DCs for a few spells.</blockquote>

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