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I was disappointed to discover that Pathfinder failed to address the most ridiculous problem with Wizards. Their bonus feats are awful.
The usefulness of Metamagic Feats is debatable as they cost spell slots. Item Creation feats are useless as it takes months to create most magic items, so cannot be done when you need the item. Spell Mastery is a ridiculous feat that is great for the NPC Wizard you find strung up in a dungeon to have, but for a PC? I have never had my wizard's spell books taken away, nor have I as a DM ever done so. Has anyone ever had this happen?
Why are none of the useful magic feats on the list? I would love to take: Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus, Augment Summoning, Spell Penetration, or Greater Spell Penetration.
Blegh!
Forget the bonus feats, how about just feats that are interesting to a wizard that he can use any of his feats on. I don't want things that just meta-magic and item creation feats, but feats that add character flavour. What about bluff-casting that increases the DC of spellcraft checks for opposed casters to determine (and counter) your spells. Or spell sniping, lets a caster make a stealth check after casting a spell from stealth to remain hidden (much like a rogue can make a stealth check to remain hidden after firing at you, with like penalties.)
Here are just two flavour feats that casters could use that are "feat worthy" without being op.
HA! Your DM is "coddling" you if he's not targetting your spellbook or spell components (half joke half serious, afterall in the whole history of D&D no fighter has figured out that if he takes out the book or components the wizard goes from GOD to GIMP?)
Seriously though, I've had a few times where I've been very glad I took eschew materials and spell mastery.
If you keep your spellbook in a bag of holding, handy haversack, etc. and it gets a targetted dispel, or worse, mage's disjunction you can't access the contents of the container until it is fixed, which means you could be without your spellbook there too.
It takes months to make magic item ? Well yes, if you craft one powerful item in one time.
If you craft a +2 ring of protection, it takes 2 days. Expand it later to +3 6 days, +3 to +4 10 days, +4 to +5 18 days... It's not that long, and it's far from months. Or don't you have enough downtime between adventures ?
The feat that is needed is Summon Down Time. Once per session you can require your dm to give you the necessary time to complete 1 magic item/level. However the Prerequisite is a case of Mountain Dew and a bag of his or her favorite snacks...
*Snorts at Brutesquad07, seemingly amused.*
Hey guys,
Just to jump in I would normally agree with the "hell no, I won't go" adventure ideas until my mage had made the boots or cloak or whatever else he wanted to do, but now thanks to the latest web enhancement from these guys wizards can adventure and still make stuff. I love it!!
I am playing a first lvl universalist mage and my DM warned me not to take any item creation feats because the party wont have time to stay for more than 1 day in any given area to warn the town and move on. Now however my craft wondrous item feat and my scribe scroll are useful again. My DM has a "thing" for undead and when we get to higher lvls demons(trust me he's TPK'd us all more than once with demons) I like the fact cursed items are back.
I am so in love with the item creation rules I cant express it enough. I can play a good aligned mage again, I always played evil or neutral before because of the sacrifice rules in the book of vile darkness, wipe out a village of 0lvl peasants get a back of holding. Now I can be the mage that is trying to do good and noble deeds to join the harpers and cast stuff from the book of exalted deeds.
My finalplug is this if you havent checked out the web enhancement for items yet do so.