Greater pool spell question

[theveggiejerk]

would this allow a magus to cast wizard spells higher than 6th level?

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

theveggiejerk wrote:

would this allow a magus to cast wizard spells higher than 6th level?

I'm not sure. The previous level of spell pool indicates that it still has to be a level you can cast, but the last tier does not.

Given that it would cost, at minimum, an additional 7 pool points to do so means it's useable, at best, once or twice a day, so I don't see it as being horribly unbalanced.

[SadKitchen]

Patryn of Elvenshae wrote:

theveggiejerk wrote:

would this allow a magus to cast wizard spells higher than 6th level?

I'm not sure. The previous level of spell pool indicates that it still has to be a level you can cast, but the last tier does not.

Given that it would cost, at minimum, an additional 7 pool points to do so means it's useable, at best, once or twice a day, so I don't see it as being horribly unbalanced.

The Greater Pool Spell Ability allows the Magus to cast any spell on the Wizard spell list. The only restriction is that they must spend arcane points equal to the spell's level.

The real question is why does a "fighter/mage" have an ability that lets him spontaniously cast any Wizard spell, while neither the Wizard or the Sorcerer can do anything close to this?

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

SadKitchen wrote:

The real question is why does a "fighter/mage" have an ability that lets him spontaniously cast any Wizard spell, while neither the Wizard or the Sorcerer can do anything close to this?

... Because he's got an insanely limited spell list, suitable in large part only for blowing things up, and can only do it once, maybe twice, a day.

And the Wizard will, at that point, know 98% of those spells anyway, and can just make a scroll of it if he wants to have nigh-permanent access to it.

The Sorceror probably won't know the spell, but he'll be a dragon at that point, and it won't matter all that much.

[Mirrel the Marvelous]

Plus if that high level wizard has a bonded object then he can cast it spontaneously as well, and this is without digging deep into a limited but extremely useful points per day resource.

[Xum]

They will probably change it.

[Synapse]

Mirrel the Marvelous wrote:

Plus if that high level wizard has a bonded object then he can cast it spontaneously as well, and this is without digging deep into a limited but extremely useful points per day resource.

Plus, if the magus doesn't have broad study(Wizard), he can't Spell-Combat or Spellstrike it, and it'll be subject to arcane failure anyway.