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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 2741717" data-attributes="member: 17969">Well, to start with, the post above misapplies the spell point rules.  In order to get the benifits of increased caster level, you have to spend spell points equal to that caster level.So that magic missile that does 3d4+3 costs just as much as the fireball that does 5d6.he could just buy 5 one-point magic missiles, which would have the same average damage as the fireball, but take 5 rounds of spellcasting.so that should beaveraged, that comes to16.5 or 12and 27.5 or 23 or 18.5But a regular cleric can spontaneoulsy cast heal, so he can usually do the same thing, and does get the number used in the post above.which averaged, comes to28.5 or 14and 47.5 or 33 or 18.5And since a cleric can spontaneously cast heal spells, his only limit is number of spell slots.  And by that level, those low-level spell slots don't get used much except for healing.If anything, that's the one area where spell-points are detrimental to a character.</blockquote>