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Consider swapping out Improved Familiar and Quicken for Elemental Focus and Greater Elemental Focus Water, and use your Aqueous Orb with Daze for a rollicking good time. Change Magical Lineage Stone Call to Magical Lineage Aqueous Orb, then you can do your Dazing Aqueous Orb using a 4th level spell slot, or add persistent using a 6th level slot.
I'm not a big fan of Quicken, but in any case, at 9th level, you only have 4th level slots, so all you can quicken are cantrips.
That's it for a quick look and it's of course simply my opinion which is colored by what I like to run!
I'm sure others will chime in with their ideas.
Have fun!
Daze and Color Spray are awesome at 1st level, but you probably want to swap them out at 4th and 6th for spells that start out weak and end up strong like Floating Disk or Magic Missile.
Similarly you can easily afford a Wand of Silent Image by 8th level and can swap that out too, nothing about the spell is level dependent, using a wand is just as good as an 8th level casting in all respects.
I'm not sold on Acid Pit, it seems redundant. You can already throw out a Persistent Create Pit with that spell slot. Add to that that the Acid Pit has a much higher likelihood of destroying the treasure and I can't see myself not going with the Persistent one.
I find it helps to think about your metamagic feats when picking spells. Once you have 5th level slots Dazing Create Pit can ruin anything with a low reflex. Persistent Glitterdust blinds more often and longer. Persistent Stinking Cloud is lights out to people with low fortitude. If you pick up something like Acid Arrow you can make it Dazing to prompt save after save to not lose 2 rounds of actions.
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Wouldn't Dazing Aqueous Orb be a 5th Level slot with Magical Lineage?
You are correct. For some reason I was thinking Dazing Spell was only a +2 level metamagic feat, but it's really a +3 level.
But I still love the Dazing Aqueous Orb!
The main problems are that it's not useful against flying creatures and the Dazing aspect isn't useful against creatures that don't take non-lethal.
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What are you really getting out of False Priest? It looks like you picked it up to just get a slightly expanded selection. Was there more to it?
Selective Spell should be considered, as well as Reach and Extend if you don't plan on using a Metamagic rod for the purpose. You'll want up to L6 spells for those, and I'd strongly urge the feat for Selective Spell over the Rod.
I would get Read Magic much earlier, but the party as a group can do that already so it's not vital.
You don't have anything to reliably shut down flyers unless you count Summoning spells. I also don't see many "Get out of Jail" cards for yourself. You have a lot of ground control spells.
One of the Sorcerer Guides has a great passage about spell selection. Since you are not a Wizard, you need to do more with less. A lot of the control spells on your list are very similar. Trade a Pit out for a Wall, for instance. Identify is a cheap scroll or wand compared to your spell slot. Go through your list and pull out the "occasional" stuff and streamline a little further.