It seems pretty straight forward to me. It says that you can cast spells from one class in slots from the other at one level higher (with some restrictions). Nowhere does it say that you must prepare spells in order for this ability to work. It simply allows you to prepare spells in the other class's slots if you would like. Since you aren't preparing, merely casting, you just get to skip that useless allowance.
Otherwise, you can't use Mystic Theurge's Combine Spells ability with any spontaneous caster, meaning sorcerers get shafted once again compared to wizards.
I don't have an official ruling on this, so someone may come along and prove me wrong, but that's how I see it being written there and that's how I would adjudicate it in my games.
sorcerer was never a really good entry for the MT you need to be a lvl 4 sorcerer opposed to a wizard 3
I thought the Prc was fine for wizard/cleric really, it might have included a spellpower boost to keep the casterlevel up to characterlevel.
All the mystic theurges I have seen took the 'practised spellcaster' feat to compensate (twice).
true to an extent, he has a ton of buffs and healing spells that do not need to be cast in combat.
In 3.5 I recall there were some feats and spells around that 'ate' spells to function, I can only think off arcane strike feat and mana shield spell atm, but there must have been more.
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I have a player who is actually doing this. He hates it, not because of the caster level hit, but because of the fact that the curse royally bones you for no good reason. Since you get the whole penalty, but only get the weakest of the benefits from the ability. The curse rules still need a little hammering out, if the curse was progressive in the same way that the benefits were it would work better and not screw over multi-classed characters.
I'm aiming to do the same thing using the Alternative Source Spell feat from Dragon Magazine 325 to qualify for Mystic Theurge as a Sorcerer 4 / Oracle 1; that is, depending on what the revised oracle looks like.
I'm aiming to do the same thing using the Alternative Source Spell feat from Dragon Magazine 325 to qualify for Mystic Theurge as a Sorcerer 4 / Oracle 1; that is, depending on what the revised oracle looks like.
Honestly I do not know what the feat does
Honestly I do not know what the feat does
It's a metamagic feat that, as a prerequisite, requires that a character be both able to cast arcane and divine spells. It allows a character to cast any of her divine spells as arcane spells or any of her arcane spells as divine spells. Each spell uses up a slot from the class that normally grants the spell, and each such spell is cast as if the caster were one level lower.