I'm late to the game with the advanced multiclass stuff, and I'm normally a lot better at figuring out wording.
However, for some reason I need to ask; How exactly does Arcanist handle it's spells per day, and spells prepared?
The conclusion I'm getting is that you prepare 1 version of each spell you will be casting for that day until your spells prepared are full, drawn from the spell book, and then you can cast from those any combination, until you run out of spell slots.
Otherwise, I'm out of understanding. Come someone clarify for me?
That is correct. Think of the Arcanist spell mechanics as though he is a sorcerer, but he can rearrange his list of known spells each day.
A third level Arcanist with no intelligence modifier would prepare three separate level one spells (ex: Color Spray, Magic Missile, Sleep) and then he can cast any of those three spells up to four times per day - 3x color spray + 1 magic missile for instance.
Basically the arcanist takes on the benefits and drawbacks of both prepared and spontaneous spellcasting.
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What about if you multi-class as both an arcanist and a wizard or Sorcerer (to make best use of some of the exploits)? I'm guessing you get the spells of the Arcanist, and the one level of spells of the Wizard or Sorcerer. What about benefits of high stats? You get bonus spells if you have an Int of 18, as an Arcanist. Would you get the same for your wizard level? What about a Sorcerer level? Would you get the benefits to the Sorcerer level if you had a Cha of say 16? If so, why one way and not the other?
Generally, you keep each form of spellcasting separate from each other.
You get spells as an Arcanist (with bonus spells from high INT), and cast them with Arcanist mechanics; then you get spells as a Wizard (with more bonus spells) and cast them with Wizard mechanics.
When I played my Arcanist and though about dipping one level into Wizard for various reasons, the question I asked my GM was: do I have to keep two separate spellbooks?
RAW, I would say so; he said it was a nonsense and allowed me to merge my spells known into a single spellbook. Eventually, I didn't multiclass anyway.
I don't see why you would need two spell books. Even if that was an enforceable rule (and I don't personally believe it is), its only a matter of time before you copied both sets over to one another.