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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2301814" data-attributes="member: 3146">I agree that it's a benefit. In fact, I do the same with my 12th level cleric--prep one lesser vigor and use pearls of power to cast it repeatedly. The efficiency of healing that way is a benefit. However, it's important not to exaggerate the benefit. At the levels we're talking about, it's about a 33% increase in spell slot efficiency and generally means either that we have a few more second and third level spells available in the next combat or that we burn through fewer CLW wand charges. (Because I try to keep my cleric from running on empty if I suspect there may be another combat--and if there isn't, it doesn't matter how inefficient I am).This benefits from the fact that most LG judges are not very strict about the in-game time involved in this method and often tend not to track minutes of game time, preferring to hand-wave min/level duration spells one way or the other.However, I think the efficiency is more a side benefit of pearl of power Is than an actual practical efficiency of pearl of power+lesser vigor (at least for the casting character). You need to use a pearl about 30 times before you've saved enough money on CLW wand charges to pay for it. And, if you consider that, at least in LG, you would probably have used someone else's CLW wand at least a good portion of that time, it may be even longer than that. OTOH, I often use other peoples' pearls of power too, so the math may not change at all. Even so, I'd say that the primary advantage is the flexibility of the PoP I rather than the efficiency of Lesser Vigor. I think my 12th level cleric just recently broke even on his PoPs and he won't have saved any game-changing amount of money through the tactic by the time he retires.So, it's unquestionably a benefit. I'm just not sure that it's a huge one.</blockquote>

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