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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3295443" data-attributes="member: 18549">I've been going through Complete Mage for the last week or so, and I haven't found much that's really unbalanced.  None of the feats stand out as must-haves, and the prestige classes are all pretty reasonable.There is one trouble spot, however.  The Ultimate Magus has a trick associated with it.  Normally, it operates like a Mystic Theurge, leaving you with Level 11 spellcasting in your two classes (typically Wizard and Sorcerer) at character level 15.  However, the way the class is worded, there are three levels at which you do not add a spellcasting level to both classes, only to the one with the lowest caster level (which is intended to be the spontaneous casting class).  However, if you take Practiced Spellcaster for the spontaneous casting class, you raise its caster level beyond the level of the prepared spellcaster.  Using that trick, you can add to the prepared spellcaster class for all 10 levels of the prestige class.  In essence, you trade 1 level of wizard for 8 levels of sorcerer.  This looks like a problem to me.Aside from that loophole, which is easily closed once identified, the book looks more or less reasonably balanced.</blockquote>