Min/Max Boards

You can always use a pickaxe, especially if it's adamantine. People underestimate the power of mundane items.

Sounds like steps in the right direction overall.

Generally Sleep and Color Spray are preferred at the lowest levels.

3.5 Toughness maybe. PF Toughness is easily much, much better and more practical.

If you burn a standard action you only have move actions to trigger this. Once you are at 9th level, you can use a move action, but doing so leaves you with only a standard action to provoke a successful AoO where this might do something. Moreover at levels 9+ your odds of facing enemies with 5 fire resist or higher (or evasion) rise dramatically, further reducing the feat into worthlessness. The feat does virtually nothing. And in the event that your feat would actually cause any AoO you take to be better for you than your opponent, your opponent can simply choose not to take the AoO in the first place, since the feat is extremely unsubtle.

Well, time for another failure of a feat:

BLAZING AURA (CONDUIT)
Source Planar Adventures pg. 26
You cover yourself in coils of flame drawn from the Plane of Fire.

Prerequisites: Knowledge (planes) 3 ranks.

Benefit: As a standard action, you can shroud yourself in fire. Until the end of your turn, whenever a creature makes a successful melee attack against you, that creature takes a number of points of fire damage equal to 1d6 plus half your ranks in Knowledge (planes); attacks made using reach weapons ignore this effect. A creature can halve this fire damage with a successful Reflex save (DC = 10 + half your level + your Constitution modifier).

You can use this feat’s benefit a number of times per day equal to your ranks in Knowledge (planes). If you have at least 9 ranks in Knowledge (planes), activating this ability is a move action. If you have at least 15 ranks in Knowledge (planes), you can activate this ability as a move action or a swift action.

Another feat ruined by incompetent Paizo editors. This would not have been a good feat even if they didn't savage it.

If doing Shadow Evocation type damage is what you are hoping for, just prestige into Veiled Illusionist. Every level gives you a Wizard spell of the illusion school, among other perks. With just illusions you can help yourself to everything from Shadow Conjuration/Evocation/Enchantment/Transmutation to Simulacrum to Shadow Step/Shadow Walk to Subjective Reality to Create Mindscape and Psychic Asylum.

Remember to use a Shadow Stencil set, get a metamagic rod of Persistent Spell, and learn the Tenebrous Spell metamagic feat. There is also the Solid Shadows metamagic, but it costs a spell level so without a metamagic rod it's not as useful and you usually want to use Persistent Spell rods instead.

If you're looking to expand your spell list, you can also take the Loremaster PrC and use the Secret of Magical Discipline feat as many times as you want (which you should be able to gain as a bonus feat on Loremaster 1 with a high enough int score). You could also take the Stargazer PrC for all its various perks (including adding flight and planar binding spells to your spell list). And you can also use Pathfinder Savant to obtain any spell you want (at a 1 level penalty) and Daivrat to gain access to any spell on a temporary basis (at a 2 level penalty), but they cost you 1 dead spellcaster level (but you can use the Prestigious Spellcaster feat to cover them). The Runeguard PrC similarly has 1 dead level but adds all the symbol and glyph spells to your class list. It also allows you to use any metamagic feat with a level adjustment of 1 for free by spending swift actions.

You can also use the Magaambyan Arcana race trait (if you are not Human, the Adopted social trait can be used to take it anyway) to add any 1 Druid or Cleric spell with the good descriptor to your class list and the Two-World Magic magic trait to add a cantrip from another spellcaster to your Beguiler. That's a lot more flexible if you use the Additional Traits feat with the Paragon Surge spell to expand your spell list temporarily with the spell of your choice. You can also use a Ring of Spell Knowledge (use UMD to circumvent the spell level penalty, preferably with a Pragmatic Activator magic trait or Clever Wordplay social trait to make UMD int-based instead) to add just about any spell 4th level or lower to your repertoire. It's probably not supposed to let you cast divine spells though.

There are more stunts too.

It's honestly rather weak. All it does is let you end an ongoing figment spell as a standard action in exchange for 1d6 damage per spell level to a single enemy.

Missed one of the more basic reasons to play spontaneous casters, and that's just having more spells per day. If your campaign forces you to do a lot of encounters per day, the added spells per day of spontaneous casters can make a considerable difference in effectiveness. That said, prepared casters usually end up with Pearls of Power to give them more spells at high levels.

In my experience, Wizard/Archivist is much more common than Wizard/Cleric, though that will of course vary by group.  Almost all of the [Arcanist]/Cleric builds I've seen have leaned heavily on Divine Metamagic (either metamagicking blasting/debuffing spells and using the arcane side for utility, or DMM: Persisting a bunch of buffs and using the arcane side for offense), so they wanted high Cha for that.  Not to mention that if Dragonlance feats are on the table, a Sorcerer/Cleric going Cha-SAD with Dynamic Priest has more synergy potential (diplomancy and such) than a Wizard/Cleric going Int-SAD with Academic Priest.

Interesting, although an Archivist can pretty much double as a Wizard by himself with enough domain spells and druid spells scribed into his spellbook. Sorcerer/Cleric though (in PF you can do something similar with an Empyreal bloodline Sorcerer which is wis-based) will put you behind an extra level of spell progression on both the arcane caster and the Cleric (because there is 1 more level of non-Cleric) when Mystic Theurge is already giving you massively delayed spell progression. I wouldn't really recommend it.

I've run an all-wizard party before that got a ton of mileage out of free spell swapping, but that game started at level 7 or thereabouts so they could already use PrCs to differentiate their builds; I've never seen a multi-wizard party in a low-level-start and/or limited-scribing game, as using each other as the primary source of spells means lower-level wizards tend to be more same-y unless they have essentially opposed specializations (in which case spell swapping is of limited benefit).  If two players are fine with having basically the same capabilities, though, then it's definitely a good option.

Well, if you have generalist Wizards it's pretty easy. You do get fewer spells per day on both Wizards, but you also have two Wizards who can probably share a number of resources between them. In Pathfinder Wizards can cast their banned schools (they just have to pay 2 spells to prepare them, and they can burn their 5th level bonus feat to remove even that penalty from 1 of their schools) anyway so it's effortless to go down this road.

It's not that they can't benefit from a cleric at all (because, again, adding a wizard or cleric to a party is never a bad thing), just that adding one to a party of full and partial manifesters with plenty of existing self-buffing gishiness is going to be much less of a comparative benefit than adding it to a party with no divine casters or less magic in general.  In that scenario, one might want to go for a bit more gap-filling variety and try out something like a face bard or an illusion-focused sorcerer (or of course something further afield like a stealth-focused swordsage).

I suppose, but I feel like the lack of comparative benefit is compensated for by simply not preparing spells the party no longer needs and preparing other spells that would be of good use to the party.

The former is definitely true for high-op games, but not necessarily in low- or mid-op ones.  Playing a spontaneous caster for party dynamics reasons can still leave you with a perfectly functional character, just like a wizard can get a long in those games without a lot of spontaneous tricks.

Honestly in PF doing things like wearing Mnemonic Vestment or playing a Half-Elf so you can Paragon Surge into temporary extra spells known feats are more like mid-op at best nowadays. It's pretty much considered part and parcel of the spontaneous spellcaster kit.

You missed the part where it has ferocity as a prerequisite and doesn't even permit full attacks, just attacking. The feat does absolutely nothing for you.

No, the point of the Living Machine option is to have a constitution score so that you can get bonus hitpoints and fortitude saves from a positive constitution score like normal spellcasters. Also so you can get healed and resurrected by spells as normal, and drop unconscious at 0 hitpoints instead of instantly being destroyed, and if you want to use any feats with constitution prerequisites. Oddly enough the Living Machine option does not appear to remove the +10 hitpoints you get as a construct, so Living Machine Wyrwoods make for some rather tough Wizards.