elemental plane of fire excursion - flame retardant?

[Gwaedh]

I'm playing in a game with lots of planar travel. In our next session we will be heading to a plane of fire. The DM in his great wisdom contrived to have all of us aquire energy resistance items in preparation for this part of the adventure. However my animal companion has no such protection. The DM has ruled that energy protection five would be sufficient.

My character can manage 4th level druid and 3rd level wizard spells. I've considered packing my second level spell slots on both sides with resist energy and combining it with rope trick to rest at night. If I rope trick for 9 hours a day I would need 10 RE spells a day to keep my wolf whole (CL is 9 for both druid and wizard). I have a total of 9 2nd level spell slots (minus 1 for rope trip). I can use third level slots as well, but thats taking away alot of my spell casting versatility.

I've got the craft wand feat as well, and have thought to spend the 2250 GP to create a resist engery wand. Combinded with rope trick that would get me through 5 days, which might be enough.

Any thoughts on better ways to pull this off?

Thanks!

[notabot]

Leave animal at home, or find way for it to use ring. Also if you are just going to the city of brass you don't really need resist, endure is enough there.

If your GM allows permanency it might be worth inquiring getting that on the animal. Not cheap, but better than preparing a bunch of spell to carry a under leveled animal companion (taking 5 levels of wizard makes your animal companion weaker than ranger companions, which begs the question exactly how useful is it?)

[EvilMinion]

druids can switch animal companions.

Leave the wolf at home, pick up something more elementaly flavorful in the new locale... do your adventuring, then leave him behind with thanks for his assistance, and pick up the wolf again on the flip side.
This of course presumes you can spend the day to find a new local to help you.