Exploiter Wizard and MetaMixing

[Uleaum]

The exploiter wizard (Advanced Class Guide p 133) gets Arcanist exploits. The arcanist exploit metamixing (Advanced Class Guide p11) allows the caster to add a meta magic feat by spending a point out the arcanist reservoir. This uses up a higher level slot as normal for an arcanist, but Exploiter wizards are not spontaneous casters.

Does this mean
A) the spell is expended by the wizard as normal with the metamagic feat attached.
B) the spell is not expended by the wizard but a higher level spell slot is expended.
C) this exploit cannot be taken by an exploiter wizard because the mechanics do not agree between the classes?

[Fearspect]

I think its going to be option C simply because of the way Wizards use Metamagic as outlined in the Metamagic Feats section.

[Bran Towerfall]

necro bump
my exploiter wizard was thinking about taking this as a 5th level feat, combined with a metamagic feat to be decided at that time. do we all agree that this exploit(metamixing) is just not available to me?

also, is school understanding worth taking for my exploiter wizard even though my charisma mod is +1 and probably not going to get higher anytime soon... thoughts would be transmutation school?

[Just a Guess]

Another necro..

In my understanding you could prepare wizard spells in a higher slot and then use metamixing to decide which metamagic feat you want to add to the spell as long as the slot you prepared the spell in is of high enough level.

For example you could prepare magic missile in a 2nd level slot and then use metamixing to add either toppling spell or piercing spell to it on the fly.

Or you could use it to add a +0 metamagic feat on the fly. Like merciful spell.