Most useful magic items for a 5th wizard

[BlindKobold]

Funny thing is...

BBB is 9500gp... meaning you can make it for 4750.

5 3rd level spells are 600gp each to scribe, for a total of 3000.

Say you also scribe 5 2rd level spells at 400gp each... that's another 2000.... that's 5000. Definately worth creating the book.

Is it worth buying.... probably not until you start scribing 4th and higher spells...

5 5th level spells is 5000gp to scribe! Ugh!

 

[Celebrim]

I'd wait on BBB until you were higher level. It's a good investment, but you have to stay alive to use it.

Necklace of Adaptation is way out of your price range.

Boots of Striding a Springing have been erratted to a more reasonable cost of 6500 g.p. You can afford them, but they'd eat up most of your budget.

I personally think that the feather tokens are broken as well (a full grown tree for 50 g.p.?), but if you have money to spare, some of them are nice.

Nifty things for 5th level wizards:

Headband of intellect +2 (4000 g.p)
Pearl of power (level 1) (1000 g.p.)
Heward's Handy Haversack (2000 g.p.)
Ring of Featherfall (2200 g.p.)
Cloak of Resistance +1 (1000 g.p.)
Amulet of Natural Armor +1 (2000 g.p.)
Ring of Protection +1 (2000 g.p.)
Boots of Elvenkind (2000 g.p.)
Bracers of Armor +1 (1000 g.p.)

One or more useful wands, such as:
Wand of Magic Missiles (5th level caster) (3750 g.p.)
Wand of Magic Missiles (1st level caster) (750 g.p.)
Wand of Mage Armor (1st level caster) (750 g.p.)
Wand of Ray of Enfeeblement (4th level caster) (3000 g.p.)
Wand of Endure Elements (1st level caster) (750 g.p.)

Assorted utility scrolls, selected according to the campaign style, such as:
Scroll of Fly (375 g.p.)
Scroll of Invisibility (150 g.p.)
Scroll of Locate Object (150 g.p.)
Scroll of Daylight (150 g.p.)
Scroll of Resist Elements (150 g.p.)
Scroll of Leomund's Tiny Hut (375 g.p.)
Scroll of Mount (25 g.p.)
Scroll of Knock (150 g.p.)
Scroll of Rope Trick (150 g.p.)
Scroll of Gaseous Form (375 g.p.)
Scroll of Tenser's Floating Disk (25 g.p.)
Scroll of Identify (125 g.p.)
Scroll of Unseen Servant (25 g.p.)
Scroll of Dispel Magic (375 g.p.)

Curative and restorative potions, such as potions of cure moderate wounds (300 g.p.), Lesser Restoration (300 g.p.), and potions of nuetralize poison (750 g.p.).

 

[Voadam]

wands of lightning bolt or fireball are pretty good at 5th level for giving a lot of firepower, but you have not listed your starting funds or whether you are considering taking any craft feats.

 

[Dinkeldog]

An amulet of natural armor would stack with mage armor

 

[KarinsDad]

I'd wait on BBB until you were higher level. It's a good investment, but you have to stay alive to use it.

It depends on what type of a Wizard you are.

If you actually take the Craft Wondrous Items feat, you can craft it yourself for 4750 GP and then still craft other cool items such as a Headband of Intellect with whatever gold you have left (assuming the DM is handing out 9000 GP worth of gold and items).

You then purchase a boatload of Wizard scrolls of 1st to 3rd level and put them into the book for free. This gives you a LOT of versatility over a handful of items, most of which give you +1 to some save or something.

The cost comparison between adding more spells to your spell book with BBB vs. without BBB is:

1st 025 225
2nd 150 550
3rd 375 975

I'd MUCH rather start out a 5th level Wizard with double or triple the number of spells I could just get by gaining levels than with only those spells plus a small handful of +1 items.

And, the money you will save in the future will allow you to actually buy good magic items as opposed to sucking most of it up into your spellbook.


In fact, the DM for the last campaign I ran a Wizard in started us at 4th level and said that I could have any 1st or 2nd level spell I wanted just by paying the scroll cost.

Big mistake.

I had about 30 spells or so.

 

[Johno]

Now the Boccob's Blessed Book thing requires DM-interpretation:

Caster Level: 7th; Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, secret page; Market Price: 9,500 gp; Weight: 1 lb.

Some DM's follow the Caster Level as a requirement.

You are also assumed to have the Secret Page spell, which is a third level spell. (Be sure to aquire it!)

It is somewhat stretching the imagination to say that you didn't have a spellbook prior to 5th level...It is also safe to say that you definitely didn't have a Boccob's Blessed Book prior to 5th level.

Personally, when creating a 5th level PC wizard, I spent most of the cash except ca. 1000gp on his (non-Blessed) Spellbook, making sure I had the spells I wanted. The 580+gp left over (after mundane equipment) were saved to spend on creating a future wonderous item (Blessed Book? most likely, followed by the handy haversack), safe in the knowledge that he knew Dispel Magic, Haste, Fly,...

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

Didn't think of that on my first post. Versatility in spell selection drasticly increses your usefulness and survival. If your DM allows it, go for the spells. The haversack is also a must. Wizards tend to need the extra capacity, not just due to lack of STR, but for teleporting as well. The free action retrival is worth it, too.

 

[Ormraxes]

A wand of shield (caster level 1) only costs 750 cp or 375 gp + 30 xp if you make it yourself.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

As karensdad pointed out item creation feats makes items alot cheaper.

There really isn't much need for any other feat than wonderous, when you are talking just about ME,ME,ME. So take wonderous and get a lot more bang for your buck. I'd definetly go with the BBB, not only does it expand your potential current spell list, it drastically exapnds your future lists as well. Also if you take craft arms and armor, you might be able to ocnvince the party that they get their guns and ammo from you, at a discount from what you'd pay in the open market. And then you can quickly expand your cash flow at the cost of exp, which I've found to be worth it a slong as I don't go to far.

Still boots of cheat as forrester calls the bundles of joy that are striding and springing costs what 6,500/3250 and double your movement. And never underestimate the advantage you gain by even being better at aggresively advancing the rear flank.

Me I'd go with BBB, and a whole lot of scrolls. Considering it's page count you just about break even with 1st level spells, so I'd stock up with 2nd levels, where you can find a passel of utility spells to really round out the character.

 

[XCorvis]

Originally posted by LordAO
You can make a wand of any spell of 4th level or lower.

D'oh! I was thinking of potions. My bad.