You don't Intensify a Fireball until level 11. Intensify expands the dice range, it doesn't grant more dice. So there is no need to take Intensify early...unless you want to apply it to burning hands. THEN you can get up to 10 base dice on burning hands, which means that at 5th level you can toss an 8HD burning hands, or if using a level 3 slot, a 12hd Empowered Intensified Burning Hands.
An Intensified Empowered FIreball at level 7 does exactly the same as an Intensified Fireball at 7.
His spell DC's will be kind of low because he's focusing on damage and caster level. Dazing Spell MIGHT be nice. Spell Pen is usually more important then Spell Focus because enemies are still going to be taking damage even if they save.
You forgot to mention your traits. Magical Lineage or Wayang hunnter, I'm assuming for the -1 Metacost to one spell?
The best damage spell at level 2 is Scorching Ray, but it's less AoE then a boss killer. However, unlike Burning Hands, it has RANGE.
You'll also pick up a TON of damage with taking a level of sorc for Crossblooded and Orc/Draconic bloodline...it will delay your caster level by a level, however.
==Aelryinth
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If you want to take dazing spell go straight wizard, for damange take the mentioned sorc dip (tatooed CB orc/ preferred draconic). The dip increases your damage from avarage 3.5 damage/dice to 5.5 which is crucial. Itemwise you focus strongly on damage but negelect your defenses, in particular dont leave home without a cloak of resistance.
Doesn't the Tattooed and Crossblooded archetypes interfere with each other since they both modify the same thing on there chart being the bonus feat at level 7?
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/sorcerer
You only take Sorceror for one level. The rest of the levels are Admixture Wizard.
==Aelryinth
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I play a wizard in PFS, and I have found that a good CON has saved my bacon more times than I can count, most recently, sucking 2 empowered Cone of Cold spells. If it weren't for my 16 con I'd be a magesicle.
I don't have a high DEX, and I find that AC items are a waste of time. Simply put, if something if big enough to hit a fighter, it will be big enough to hit a wizard, AC 10 or AC 25. The strength you have is that you don't have to be in combat.
Pick up a Lesser Maximize Rod as soon as you can and combine it with Empower Spell. I chose Universalist for my school for Metamagic Mastery. Sure I dont get the tiny bonus from Evoker, but I get 90 point Fireballs memorized in a 3rd level slot. Also, pick up a Lesser Elemental Metamagic Rod (Cold). Cold is the one energy type that Devils, Daemons and Demons are all "vulnerable" to. (They have resistances sure, but not outright immunity)
A recommendation: Get Spell Focus, Spell Penetration, and their greaters too. As you go up in level, things will routinely make a 21 save, so you need to jack that saving throw and make sure things land on monsters with spell resistance at all costs.
All of that said, your boomchuck damage at 11th/12th level relies upon failed saves. As you get higher, you will be doing less explosions and more setup. More things have Evasion higher up too, which causes issues with the fireball mage.
Keep your options open, but make sure when you want something to hit, by god it will hit. As always, a well placed Enervation (or two) is your friend, as is having Illusion open as a school (Mirror Image / Displacement is invaluable). And a Well timed Charm Person can win you a prestige point, even with the crappy CHA.
Too much rambling.
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An Addendum:
Selective Spell is a waste. Don't bother. Just communicate with your party and be smart about placement. You won't get all the bad guys in one swoop, but you have an entire party of "minions" to pull cleanup after the bomb drops.
I also disagree on the Sorc dip. +2 Points per die of damage is okay, but when you already throw a guaranteed 90, 20 points is nothing but faffing about and keeping your caster level down. Between saves, resistances and evasion, it's pretty nullified in the end.
Where are you getting 90 pts of damage from an Empowered, maximized Fireball?
Unless they reversed the ruling recently, Maximize does NOT max out the Empowered portion of Fireball. It's specifically stated right there in the feat.
Quote: An empowered, maximized spell gains the separate benefits of each feat: the maximum result plus half the normally rolled result.
You're throwing a 60 pt fireball with +5d6 added on, or about 77 pts.
A crossblooded build would be throwing a 90 pt +5d6 pts at the same caster level. That is a SIGNIFICANT difference.
==Aelryinth
You don't Intensify a Fireball until level 11. Intensify expands the dice range, it doesn't grant more dice. So there is no need to take Intensify early...unless you want to apply it to burning hands. THEN you can get up to 10 base dice on burning hands, which means that at 5th level you can toss an 8HD burning hands, or if using a level 3 slot, a 12hd Empowered Intensified Burning Hands.
An Intensified Empowered FIreball at level 7 does exactly the same as an Intensified Fireball at 7.
His spell DC's will be kind of low because he's focusing on damage and caster level. Dazing Spell MIGHT be nice. Spell Pen is usually more important then Spell Focus because enemies are still going to be taking damage even if they save.
You forgot to mention your traits. Magical Lineage or Wayang hunnter, I'm assuming for the -1 Metacost to one spell?
The best damage spell at level 2 is Scorching Ray, but it's less AoE then a boss killer. However, unlike Burning Hands, it has RANGE.
You'll also pick up a TON of damage with taking a level of sorc for Crossblooded and Orc/Draconic bloodline...it will delay your caster level by a level, however.
==Aelryinth
The OP used that at 8th level because he DID have a caster level of 11, at least in regard to the Fireball spell: Spell Secialisation (+2 CL) and Varision Tattoo (+1 to all Evocation Spells)
