How useful are Fast Study and False Focus for a wizard?


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Liberty's Edge

I'm leveling up a utility wizard for PFS play. I've seen people, in guides or threads, claim that the feats below are wonderful, while others say they are useless. I'd love to hear some reasons why people think what they think!

Fast Study - I can imagine walking into a Society briefing completely spell-less and taking 15 minutes after the introductions and briefing to learn all but one spell per level could be handy, and then I can refill that one per level any time I want, out of combat in just a minute. Need Air Bubble for that underwater salvage mission? No problem! Then again, my party might happily let me sit there for 1 hour to learn all my spells, and 15 minutes to fill in the one or two. How much of a difference does it make, in your opinion?

What about False Focus? It seems like an Eschew Materials feat with a tasty added bonus. No spell component pouch? Spend a few minutes and a Craft check to carve or draw myself a holy symbol, and I'm set. Or *coughs* I could get a holy symbol tattoo. Would I even need it somewhere public? It's not like you need to present your dragon scales and ground mica to the enemy. There aren't that many material components under 100g in the spell list, but free alchemical power material components could be a nice bonus. My wizard is a devout Pharasman, so it would even be in character.


Don't know about PFS, but...

Fast Study is fantastic if you keep most of your slots open at the start of the day, then prepare once you know what you are fighting (use it while your mino... party members strip the dead).

False Focus is great to combine with Fabricate (any 300 GP mundane item you want, right now) and Communal Stone Skin (It's free for a single target). With a tatoo is is basically just an improved eschew materials on top of that.

Liberty's Edge

Oh, Fabricate, that hadn't occurred to me, very nice!

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