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<blockquote data-quote="Dingleberry" data-source="post: 4739861" data-attributes="member: 490">I'm playing an elven wizard, domain variant (evocation).&nbsp; Her background is almost exclusively academic, but she's enjoying her current &quot;field research&quot; adventuring with a war cleric and a minotaur barbarian.She's just hitting Wiz5.&nbsp; I've never played a wizard before, so I'm looking for recommendations for her 5th level class feat.&nbsp; Her current feats are Scribe Scroll (class), Collegiate Wizard (from Complete Arcane), and Spell Focus (evocation).&nbsp; I don't know if she'll eventually head for a prestige class - the only real contenders character-wise are Archmage and Loremaster.&nbsp; It's an Eberron campaign, so magic items are pretty easy to come by if you have the gold - but I'm still leaning toward a creation feat like Craft Wand or Craft Wondrous Item because they're always going to be useful.&nbsp; In your experience, is the gp savings worth it in the long run?&nbsp; Is Wondrous Item a better choice than Wand just for the variety available?The standard metamagic feats appear to require a lot of cost (higher level spell slots) for the *chance* of being really useful (e.g., Silent Spell only helps if you run into a silence spell, Still Spell only helps if she gets immobilized).&nbsp; Why not just use metamagic rods, or have a few key metamagicked scrolls?&nbsp; The &quot;Sudden&quot; metamagic feats in Complete Arcane look like they'd be better in a pinch - how do y'all like them in practice?Spell Mastery also seems like a big trade-off for something that might never come into play.Thoughts from the collective?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dingleberry, post: 4739861, member: 490"] I'm playing an elven wizard, domain variant (evocation). Her background is almost exclusively academic, but she's enjoying her current "field research" adventuring with a war cleric and a minotaur barbarian. She's just hitting Wiz5. I've never played a wizard before, so I'm looking for recommendations for her 5th level class feat. Her current feats are Scribe Scroll (class), Collegiate Wizard (from Complete Arcane), and Spell Focus (evocation). I don't know if she'll eventually head for a prestige class - the only real contenders character-wise are Archmage and Loremaster. It's an Eberron campaign, so magic items are pretty easy to come by if you have the gold - but I'm still leaning toward a creation feat like Craft Wand or Craft Wondrous Item because they're always going to be useful. In your experience, is the gp savings worth it in the long run? Is Wondrous Item a better choice than Wand just for the variety available? The standard metamagic feats appear to require a lot of cost (higher level spell slots) for the *chance* of being really useful (e.g., Silent Spell only helps if you run into a [I]silence[/I] spell, Still Spell only helps if she gets immobilized). Why not just use metamagic rods, or have a few key metamagicked scrolls? The "Sudden" metamagic feats in Complete Arcane look like they'd be better in a pinch - how do y'all like them in practice? Spell Mastery also seems like a big trade-off for something that might never come into play. Thoughts from the collective? [/QUOTE]

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