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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pax" data-source="post: 808355" data-attributes="member: 6875">Epic Spellcatsers get NOTHING simply by dint of going up a level, int erms of spells per day.However, there is a FEAT that gives you higher-level spells.If you can cast the highest-allowed-level of a spellcasting class, you can take "Increased Spell Capacity", and gain ONE spell per day (plus bonusses for high ability score), of the NEXT highest level.A Wizard(30) has ... Let's see, character levels 21, 24, 27, and 30; Epic Wizard 23, 26, and 29 ... 7 epic feats.So, if he was silly enough to spend them ALL on Increased Spell Capacity, he could have 16th level spells.Frankly, though, he'd be best-served by getting Improved Metamagic twice, and Improved Combat Casting once.  Spend the other four, to get up to 13th level spells.Thus all metamagics woudl cost 2 less levels (to a minimum of +1), which means you can Maximise (+1), Maximise(+1), Twin (+2) that Meteor Swarm (applying one Maximise to each iteration of the spell that Twin Spell creates).  Or just quadruply-Empower it.  And so on.Meanwhile, you can cast a Maximised Meteor Swarm as a 10th-level spell, rather than as a 12th-level.You also no longer provoke AoO's for spellcasting (Improved Combat Casting).The next feat this guy gets should be Epic Spellcasting IMO, or, start down the Auto Quicken / Multispell road.With enough Improved Metamagics, you can even go with Intensify Spell.  Frankly, once you're looking at metamagicking your spells, it's even-odds between Improved Metamagic and Increased Spell Capacity, at least until you have 3+ Improved Metamagic feats.ImpMeta (x3) works well, then the only expensive meta feat is Intensify Spell (which would cost +4 levels, then).</blockquote>

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