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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker" data-source="post: 1942104" data-attributes="member: 826">Weird.  I've never played a spontaneous caster, but I always thought that because a metamagicked spell took a round to cast it would be a big pain the ass.  Maybe it's not as bad as I think.That said.  We have three casters in our 4 man party that prepare spells.  Two of them (Cleric/Hierophant and a Wizard/Archmage) make fairly extensive use of metamagics.  The wizard does it more in the form of scrolls and wands whereas I use (or plan to use once I find a new god <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> ) my spell slots for them.  The main reason for this is because I need to use persistant spell to have divine power/favor, prayer and recitation on all the time so I (instead of taking several rounds to buff) can act as a buffer between enemy meleeists and the wizards who can pound the enemy if left relatively uninterrupted.I also have Heighten Spell.  I have found (back when I had spells) that the higher DC for certain spells such as Hold Person or Sound Burst are quite useful.I do want Quicken Spell so I can fling off a spell and then go into melee.So in my experience metamagic feats (the ones we use) are quite powerful despite the fact that they are costly and are definately not, as others have stated, useless.  IM(not so humble)O.</blockquote>

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