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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4997132" data-attributes="member: 35909">You have the right basic idea, but I'd advise dropping focused specialist, it costs too much for what you gain, and I really doubt you'll need those extra spell slots to have things to do all day.  I also think energy admixture is overpriced, I'd drop that.  Take the cold reserve feat (Wintery Breath, iirc) so you have something to spam in a large encounter day, and also for the +1 cold CL, so at your starting level 5 you're tossing out two <s>Scorching</s> Freezing Rays.  I'd drop Eschew Materials for Empower Spell.  If flaws are an option, make sure to get Easy Metamagic on Empower.  Now at level 5 with the above feats, you can drop 2 ranged touch attacks each for 6d6 cold damage for a 3rd level spell slot.Alternatively, get Focus Caster (dragon mag and crystalkeep) instead of the +1 CL alternate class feature.  It delays your awesomeness a level, but gives some nifty abilities you might like more.  At Wizard 1, you deal +1 damage with all evocations.  At Wizard 7, you ignore the first 5 points of an enemy's energy resistance (as in, treat it like it's 5 less than it is, to a minimum of 0).   At Wiz 15 (which you'll never get to, of course) it also lets you 1/day ignore an energy immunity of a creature.  I don't know, up to you which benefits you find better.I'd recommend the appropriate veil from Magic Item Compendium, cheap items (part of a set) to 3/day as a swift action do extra damage to a foe you just damaged with energy type x, but unfortunately there isn't one for cold, only lightning, fire, and acid, as they're based on the prismatic spell line.</blockquote>

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