Raising Spellcaster Level


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Grand Lodge

I am about to start playing a wizard in the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path, at some point I would like to take on the Riftwarden prestige class.

Now the downside of that class is a few levels where your Spellcasting Class does not increase. Beyond gaining fame via the Magic Guilds in the Inner Sea Magic Campaign Setting, is there any other way to make up the difference through feats or traits or something else?

Scarab Sages

Orange Ioun Stones will increase your caster level, Magical Knack will raise your CL by two (but not over your character level).

Nothing else that I can think of that will raise your CL (though of note is that it doesn't increase spellcasting, only caster level. So no new spells).


The is no way to increase the level of your spellcasting class feature, as a whole.
So the spell per day and highest spell level availiable will take a hit from the Riftwarden prestige class.

Your caster level, which affect the effect of your spells, can be raised by 2 with the Magical Knack trait.

Grand Lodge

Yeah I am familiar with Caster Level bumps, but was working on making up the prestige class shortfall. Like I said so far Fame via Inner Sea Magic is all I got.

Which kind of sucks, even a +1 or +2 Spellcasting Class feat would be nice. I do need to look up the Mythic Feats as I am unsure if there is something hidden in there and Wrath of the Righteous is all about Mythic.


Not for me as he's running a fighter with magical abilities type build but http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q98j?Mythic-Eldritch-Knight-Build is one I've been looking at as a starting point for my own one.

There are some differences (I'm more caster/stealth than brute force kick in the door and blow up the room then hack apart any survivors so I'm taking ranger rather than survivor and dropping a combat feat for mythic sustanance now if only there were one for sleeping) and I was thinking of posting my own one for feedback sometime but I'd take a look there as there are a couple of things suggested to boost caster level (from WotR too so he probably looked at those things).


Magical Marketplace adds the "alchemical affinity" arcane discovery for wizards that gives you +1 CL for any spells that are on both the alchemist and wizard lists, and lets you take formulas from alchemist spellbooks as if they were wizard spellbooks. requires level 5 wizard to get.

combine with bloodmage initiate, varisian tattoo, a regular and flawed orange prism ioun stone (they both add +1CL and are different sources, the latter also imposes a -2 to your casting stat, unfortunately--you can mitigate it with items and such if you need), spell focus/greater spell focus, etc.

also, on ioun stones and wayfinders:

-(wayfinder slotted) agate ellipsoid grants +1 CL for divination spells,
-(wayfinder slotted) silver spindle grants +1CL for racial SLAs you might have,
-(wayfinder slotted) orange prism grants 1d4-2 CL (as well as the usual stone effect) every time you cast a spell

wayfinders are pretty nifty.


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Emerald Eydis wrote:

Yeah I am familiar with Caster Level bumps, but was working on making up the prestige class shortfall. Like I said so far Fame via Inner Sea Magic is all I got.

Which kind of sucks, even a +1 or +2 Spellcasting Class feat would be nice.

Yeah it really sucks that there isn't a feat that basically gives you two extra levels in the most powerful class in the game.


Roberta Yang wrote:
Emerald Eydis wrote:

Yeah I am familiar with Caster Level bumps, but was working on making up the prestige class shortfall. Like I said so far Fame via Inner Sea Magic is all I got.

Which kind of sucks, even a +1 or +2 Spellcasting Class feat would be nice.

Yeah it really sucks that there isn't a feat that basically gives you two extra levels in the most powerful class in the game.

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There is really no need to be sarcastic.

It is a fair question, even though others find the answer obvious, and the poster has done nothing to deserve an impolite answer.

Grand Lodge

Got to love how it seems to be unreasonable when the majority of prestige classes offer no reduction in Spell Casting Level.

Just was looking for something to take the edge off of multiclassing, for instance the druid can mitigate her own loss of progression for the Animal Companion with Boon Companion.

Or if not a straight Spellcaster Level increase I was hoping maybe Pathfinder had something like the Epic 3.5 feat Improved Spell Capacity. At least then I would gain a couple slots due to having an Arcane School.

While I do love how Pathfinder empowered Single class characters, I feel it did at the cost of the concept of prestige classes. But hey maybe I am wrong here.


Emerald Eydis wrote:

Got to love how it seems to be unreasonable when the majority of prestige classes offer no reduction in Spell Casting Level.

Just was looking for something to take the edge off of multiclassing, for instance the druid can mitigate her own loss of progression for the Animal Companion with Boon Companion.

Or if not a straight Spellcaster Level increase I was hoping maybe Pathfinder had something like the Epic 3.5 feat Improved Spell Capacity. At least then I would gain a couple slots due to having an Arcane School.

While I do love how Pathfinder empowered Single class characters, I feel it did at the cost of the concept of prestige classes. But hey maybe I am wrong here.

I agree with you actually I like the idea of Ranger 1, Arcanist 9, eldritch knight 10 but that actually puts me 2 levels behind in spellcasting. If I take a wizard I'm still losing a level because of that first level of eldritch knight. Still I can see the other side of the coin it just hurts with some specific classes.


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holy mother of necromancy, batman!

Whoops didn't look at the date, could have sworn this was on the first page when I was browsing threads.

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