Spell Mastery?

[LazarusLong42]

Thanks for the responses, all! I kinda figured that would be the response; I just wanted to make certain I wasn't nuts thinking this feat has extremely limited use.

 

[Taluron]

The best use for Spell Mastery I've seen (and the only useful one I've seen IMO) was someone talking about an 'Escape Package'. Take the following spells:
Knock - V only
Magic Missile - V S
Dispel Magic or Greater Dispeling - V S
Mage Hand or Telekinesis - V S
Dimension Door or Teleport or TPort wout Error - V S
Shield - V S

With these spells mastered you can get out of just about anywhere. Offense, defense, movement and the ability to supress/remove most magical and physical wards. No component or focus requirements. If you have Silent Spell and Still Spell then only extreme measures can hold you (Antimagic Field, Trap the Soul, death, etc).

 

[glass]

No wizard can spontaneously cast. Except (I think) if he's taken the Signature Spell feat. (Where's that feat from, btw?)

I might be worth noting that spell mastery is a prereq for signiture spell.

glass.

 

[Nail]

This is a d_mn good idea.

The best use for Spell Mastery I've seen (and the only useful one I've seen IMO) was someone talking about an 'Escape Package'. Take the following spells:
Knock - V only
Magic Missile - V S
Dispel Magic or Greater Dispeling - V S
Mage Hand or Telekinesis - V S
Dimension Door or Teleport or TPort wout Error - V S
Shield - V S

With these spells mastered you can get out of just about anywhere. Offense, defense, movement and the ability to supress/remove most magical and physical wards. No component or focus requirements. If you have Silent Spell and Still Spell then only extreme measures can hold you (Antimagic Field, Trap the Soul, death, etc).

 

[Voadam]

Concerning Spell Mastery, if a wizard does take this feat, I recommend spells with no focus or material component. Recently the party in my campaign was captured. They eventually escaped, but the wizard not only had no spellbook, but also no component pouch. Even with Spell Mastery, most of his spells would have been unusable. While it's rare that a wizard character loses his spellbook, it's even rarer that he'd lose the spellbook but not his component pouch.

Quick question concerning open slots: Can a wizard memorize a spell, then decide later that day to change it? During the normal memorization process, a wizard can choose to "forget" a spell harmlessly to replace it with another - can he do so in the same way he fills open slots (so long as he hasn't yet cast it that day)?

Or also have eschew materials.

 

[Voadam]

No wizard can spontaneously cast. Except (I think) if he's taken the Signature Spell feat. (Where's that feat from, btw?)

There is an equivalent feat in Quintessential wizard as well (same effect and prereq) but I think it has a different name there.