Gnome Pyromaniac and Magical Knack trait

[NdG]

Hello evryone!
I've been looking for an answer to this question but...nothing...
What do you think?

Example:
Gnome 3rog/1wiz
With Pyromaniac and Magical Knack

Casting Burning Hand it will be casted like a wiz of 3rd (MK overlaps Pyromaniac) or 4th lvl (they stacks: +2 from MK and +1 from Pyromaniac because is a fire spell)?

[Abraham spalding]

Stack it up -- you'll get the CL 4 on that one.

[Benicio Del Espada]

I see nothing that prohibits it stacking with MK. I'd say it does, just for the giggles of it.

[NdG]

I like you!
That's the answer I was looking for! :-)

[MisterSlanky]

You'll get CL4, but wouldn't it be more fun to put it on an uncapped early level spell like scorching ray rather than on one that's capped fairly early and at a low-damage total?

[Abraham spalding]

MisterSlanky wrote:

You'll get CL4, but wouldn't it be more fun to put it on an uncapped early level spell like scorching ray rather than on one that's capped fairly early and at a low-damage total?

Scorching ray is capped too.

[MisterSlanky]

My groups don't typically run past 12th (and neither does PFS), so yes, it is capped for a lot of players, but if you're thinking PFS at all, it's essentially uncapped.

Hmmm, makes me wonder if there's a better choice though.

[Benicio Del Espada]

MisterSlanky wrote:

You'll get CL4, but wouldn't it be more fun to put it on an uncapped early level spell like scorching ray rather than on one that's capped fairly early and at a low-damage total?

Maybe NdG has a certain concept in mind (the gnome who likes to watch things burn), but he'd need more wiz levels to cast that.

[NdG]

Naturally yes...
That was just an example cause it was a 1st lvl spell.
That means it works with schorcing ray too and that's interesting!

[MisterSlanky]

So here are some ideas of other spells to put it on that are not capped (I looked at levels 1-3 since I think the goal is to get the advantage fairly early).

Level 1:
None

Level 2:

• Burning Gaze - Add 3 rounds to the duration, damage increase from duration increase
  
• Elemental Touch - Add 3 rounds to the duration, damage increase from duration increase
  
• Fire Breath - Add 3 rounds to the duration, no damage increase
  
• Flaming Sphere - Add 3 rounds to the duration, damage increase from duration increase
  
• Scorching Ray - You hit your damage cap at 8 rather than 11
  
• Veil of Ash - Add 3 rounds to the duration of the negative effect
  

Level 3:

• Elemental Aura - Add 3 rounds to the duration, damage increase from duration increase
  
• Fireball - Cap your damage at level 7 rather than level 10
  
• Heatstroke - Add 3 minutes to the duration of the negative effect
  
• Flame Arrow - Add 30 minutes to the duration
  

[Huppolitan]

Magical Knack: "Pick a class when you gain this trait—your caster level in that class gains a +2 trait bonus as long as this bonus doesn’t increase your caster level higher than your current Hit Dice."

Magical Knack is not linked to a particular spell, but to a class. As long as the specified class is "Wizard," I think the OP can use this with any lvl 1 Wiz spell, or I suppose with higher-level ones from scrolls cast through UMD as long as the final CL is less than current HD and the total CL does not exceed Wiz level+2. Magical Knack is perhaps overly powerful.