Elementalist wizard question


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Relavant copy paste from the SRD wrote:
Unlike a normal arcane school, each elemental school requires the wizard to select his opposed element as his opposition school (Air opposes earth, fire opposes water). He does not need to select a second opposition school. He must expend two spell slots to prepare a spell from his opposed elemental school as normal.

What happens when you have a spell that appears both on your element's list of spells and on your opposed element's list of spells? Resist energy appears on the earth, air, fire, and water lists. However, since you don't choose the energy type until the time you cast the spell, it's not like you can differentiate the energy types beforehand to determine if it should use one slot or two.

I feel like it a spell appears on your element's list and your opposing element's list, it should not require two spell slots. However, I don't think that specific point is brought up anywhere, so a strict RAW would mean a wizard using the 4 classic elements would always need to spend two slots to prepare resist energy, protection from energy, several summon monster spells, dragon's breath, planar binding, and more!

If anyone knows of relevant text saying anything to the contrary, I'd love to see it ^_^


Resist Energy is available to all Elementalist Wizards. It isn't in any particular Elemental School so it can't be in your opposition school.

Think of it, and any other in the "all" group, as the elemental equivalent of a Universal spell. Universal spells don't need to take up two slots because "Universal" as in any opposition school. Similarly the "all" spells are on your list and can't be in opposition to your school.

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Oh, cool. Looking at it in the PRD actually makes this much clearer than on the d20srd. Thank you! Boy do I feel dumb ^__^;;


Ectar wrote:
Oh, cool. Looking at it in the PRD actually makes this much clearer than on the d20srd. Thank you! Boy do I feel dumb ^__^;;

No reason to feel dumb. Pathfinder is really complicated. Looking at the d20 entries for the first time, I can see why you were confused. I didn't understand exactly why you said that Resist Energy was on both lists, rather than referring to the 'all' category, but now I get it.


With the monster summoning spells, the spell assumes the type for the elemental summoned.

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When you use a summoning spell to summon a creature with an alignment or elemental subtype, it is a spell of that type.

For example: you can memorize Summon Monster II as a bonus spell, but it can only be used to summon a small elemental of the appropriate type.

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