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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luis Figoo" data-source="post: 383399" data-attributes="member: 7743">Here are some of my suggestionsMonk 1/Sorcerer 4/Mage of the Arcane Order 10 or 7/As you wish XMotAO is from T&B. It requires Arcane Preparation, some meta magic feat and cooperative spell. Using a human, you can qualify at 4th level. At 7th level you get most of what the class offers. If however you continue past epic levels, you may wish to complete the full 10 level progressionArchmage (FRCS) or War wizard of Cormyr (MoF) might be good picks to finsh off the classMonk is good because it gives evasion and a AC wisdom bonus but its no biggie if you replace it with a sorcerer levelMotAO is good because it allows you to pull half your level in spells from the spell pool. These can be any spells you wish. This PrC alone gives you versatility (something missing in a lot of sorcerer builds). The half level limitation balances it but you should find the limit suffcient for most cases (divinations, protections, etc)Featwise i tend towards Spell Focus/Spell Penetration/Improved Initiative/Leadership/Meta magics (Subsitution especially). Skip the item creation feats if possible. You may be able to offload item creation feats to your cohort if you are allowed by your DM to take leadership.Spell penetration and its Greater version aren't needed until you get pretty high in levels (15th/18th feat slots). Once there, i would consider it almost critical.For Spell Focus, here are the common ones for a battle mageTransmutation - The school of the one shot kill spells. With greater Spell Penetration, this allows you to kill off major opposition in the first round (Pit Fiends etc). This also covers your Fort Based savesCharm/Enchantment - This allows you to reduce the enemy's forces by a few while reinforcing your own. It is also a one shot kill spell for the right circumstances. However, a lot of monster types are immune to these spells, plus a simple protection from evil (1st level) kills it. This covers your will saves.Evocation - The blasting spells. This allows you to take out large numbers of monsters or weaken things that would otherwise be immune to your other spells. These cover your reflex saves.As for the other schools i'm not a great fan of those so i'll ignore them for this discussion.Alot of PrCs give bonus Metagmagic slots so use those and save your 1/3 level feat slots for general feats. Think about Subdual subsitution. This will allow you to fireball in town without killing anyone and also covers things such as hold person when you need to capture someone. To ensure you can kill stuff, think about Energy Subsitution (Sonic). Very few things protect against sonic attacks and fewer monsters still have resistance towards it. Empower is also a good choice, as is heighten. Both allows you to reuse your lower level spells for greater damage or higher save DCs. Empower also breaks a lot of spellsFor your spell list always remember this - Plan your entire spell list up to 9th level spells. This is very important to prevent redunancy in spell known selectionAlso ask youself these questions. Would it be better served to use a magic item? Would the spell be much much better with a higher casting level than through items? Is it DC based? Does it Ignore SR and Saves (this is very good for a sorcerer)? Does it hit another save type (Ref/Will/Fort) in which i'm lacking in?Mage Armor is a poor man's bracers of Armor. Once you find those, you'll find that you've wasted one of your known spell slots. Truestrike doesn't get any benefit at all from higher casting levels. It would be better off in wands. Unless you've gotten empower as your metamagic feat, the same applies to buff spells. They would work almost as well as casted in wand formAlso look at ignored spells like wind wall (this is an archer's bane) and always have haste, fly and teleport in your spell list. These 3 are among the must haves IMO. Also if you have taken empower, always take eagle's splendor (T&B) and is at all possible, cat's grace (initiative) and endurance (hp). A multiple empowered buff is much more effective at high levels than a non epic ehancement item and with a sorcerer's spell slots you can rebuff (perhaps dropping 1 of the multiple empowers) without too much problem after a disjunction</blockquote>

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