I'm making a bloodrager with the sorcerer vmc
I was wondering if i took the magical lineage trait and the arcane sorcerer bloodline if i could apply the intensified metamagic feat to the spell shocking grasp without increasing the casting time to that spell and also still cast it in a first level spell slot.
Magical Lineage: One of your parents was a gifted spellcaster who not only used metamagic often, but also developed many magical items and perhaps even a new spell or two—and you have inherited a fragment of this greatness. Pick one spell when you choose this trait. When you apply metamagic feats to this spell, treat its actual level as 1 lower for determining the spell's final adjusted level.
Metamagic Adept (Ex): At 3rd level, you can apply any one metamagic feat you know to a spell you are about to cast without increasing the casting time. You must still expend a higher-level spell slot to cast this spell. You can use this ability once per day at 3rd level and one additional time per day for every four sorcerer levels you possess beyond 3rd, up to five times per day at 19th level. At 20th level, this ability is replaced by arcane apotheosis.
I'm not sure if i could.
I realize that it would work using a second level spell slot.
It seems like i could use a first level slot on it but the wording of metamagic adept makes me unsure if i could.
Any help sorting out this word jumble would be appreciated.
I thank you in advance for any help you could provide.
By my reading, "You must still expend a higher-level spell slot to cast this spell." sounds like reminder text, since it's not providing any sort of exception text. It's just aligning with the general rules text.
Thus, it seems that you follow all the spontaneous caster rules of casting a spell, with the given exception listed in the ability. Because the only exception is that you can apply the metamagic without increasing the casting time, that's the only exception you make.
So yes, you can use metamagic adept and keep the spell at the same level by the effect of magical lineage.