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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 377406" data-attributes="member: 3146">GMW would become a never prepared scroll spell to carry around and use only when encountering a creature with high DR. I suspect most people (except for archers) would just get the Sure Striking Enhancement from Sword and Fist (if available) and never use GMW again.Anything with DR greater than x/silver would pretty much become immune to archers. The cost of buying real magic arrows is prohibitive. For a single combat, GMW is generally not worth a 3rd or 4th level spell slot (unless it can be precast which it can't reliably with a 1 minute duration).This is probably the most balanced suggestion. +1/4 caster levels would prevent +5 enhancement bonusses from being matter of course until 20th level (except via Beads of Karma). +1/5 levels would prevent even Beads of Karma from enabling the +5 break. OTOH, +1/5 levels would also make it very difficult for the spell to serve one of its primary purposes--enabling the bypassing of damage reduction. By 8th level, creatures with DR x/+2 are relatively common--especially among fiendish and celestial templated creatures. DR x/+3 becomes common well before 15th level so 1/5 levels is probably too harsh.</blockquote>