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Offline Thinblade

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Multiclass spell progression in epic
« on: October 03, 2012, 01:02:06 PM »
Hi all. I've got a fairly basic question about how spell progression works in epic. I'm in an argument with a pedant over on another board and want to smack him down, but I want to get my facts straight first, and there's no better place to come than here.

So, my question. Say you have a Fighter 4/Wizard 16 (bad build, I know, but I want to keep the examples simple). They go up to character level 21, and the player adds a level of wizard. The character is now "epic," since the character level is 21. The character can't cast epic spells, since they can't take Epic Spellcasting. They do, however, gain the casting increase of become a 17th level wizard, correct? That would continue until they were a Fighter 4/Wizard 20 (character level 24), at which point they wouldn't gain any more spell slots. Or does their spell progression permanently stop when they reach character level 20?

Side question: take a Cleric 3/Wizard 3/MT 10/Wizard +4 (or Wizard PrC 4). Is there ever any reason to take Epic MT more than 3 levels, at which point you've taken Wizard casting to level 20? At that point if you wanted to top off your cleric, wouldn't you be better advised taking a cleric PrC? (Of course, you'd be better advised coming up with a better build, but if you're dealing with someone you absolutely insists...)

Thanks for the advice.

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Re: Multiclass spell progression in epic
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2012, 02:35:37 PM »
You're correct - casting progression doesn't freeze until caster 20.
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Re: Multiclass spell progression in epic
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2012, 05:32:57 PM »
caster level increases beyond level 20 though. thus, going epic mystic theurge would make sense.

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Re: Multiclass spell progression in epic
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2012, 06:22:47 PM »
The epic progression for mythic theurge gives +1 arcane casting on odd-numbered levels and +1 divine casting on even-numbered levels.  It really defeats the purpose of a theurge class. 

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Re: Multiclass spell progression in epic
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2012, 06:25:17 PM »
The epic progression for mythic theurge gives +1 arcane casting on odd-numbered levels and +1 divine casting on even-numbered levels.  It really defeats the purpose of a theurge class.
dafuq?! thought it would simply continue...
well then epic mt sucks epically...

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Re: Multiclass spell progression in epic
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2012, 06:43:14 PM »
Fighter 4 / Wizard 16 could use Heighten + Versatile
to get a 9, and therefore qualify for Epic Spells.
But that wouldn't be fair to the rest of the multiverse, now would it?
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Re: Multiclass spell progression in epic
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2012, 06:44:03 PM »
Still better than alternating Wizard and Cleric levels though.  Epic MT gets bonus Epic feats every few levels.
But nowhere near as good as picking another Arcane and another Divine PrC and alternating between those.
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