So the player has this rod and uses it to cast fireball against something with SR.
Metamagic Rod, Piercing:
The wielder can cast up to three spells per day that overcome the spell resistance of a target as though use the Piercing Spell feat.
Piercing Spell (Metamagic):
Benefit: When you cast a piercing spell against a target with spell resistance, it treats the spell resistance of the target as 5 lower than its actual SR.
Level Increase: +1 (a piercing spell uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell's actual level.)
The question is, does this spell need to be prepared as 4th level?
Or because they are using the ROD, the level increase is null and void.
Metamagic rods hold the essence of a metamagic feat, allowing the user to apply metamagic effects to spells (but not spell-like abilities) as they are cast. This does not change the spell slot of the altered spell.
Bolded the important bit from the Rod section of the CRB.
Metamagic rods hold the essence of a metamagic feat, allowing the user to apply metamagic effects to spells (but not spell-like abilities) as they are cast. This does not change the spell slot of the altered spell.Bolded the important bit from the Rod section of the CRB.
Thanks, that's what I was trying to find.
Seems like a cheap way to overcome these spell level increase's.
Buy a Metamagic Rob of Maximize, and now your wizard can cast fireball maximized at level 5, instead of level 11, since it requires +3 spell slots.
And if he can cast 3 a day maximized.
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Rods are expensive. I am not sure how many wizards are spending 14k at 5th level for a minor maximize rod.