Does Wealthy Dabbler count as a SLA or not?

[gritz2m]

I've searched high and low for an answer on this and can't find a conclusive ruling.

Does Wealthy Dabbler allow you to cast Arcane spells or does it function like a Spell-like Ability?

For reference:

Wealthy Dabbler (Regional): You study magic at one
of Taldor’s many social clubs, wowing your friends with
your expertise in the simplest of magical exploits. Select
two non-harmful arcane cantrips. You can cast these two
cantrips once per day each (caster level 1st). If you have
levels in a class that can cast these cantrips, your caster
level for these cantrips is equal to that class level.

I'm asking because I would like to know if this would qualify for Arcane Strike or not. If it does grant the ability to cast arcane spells, great, if not, just ok. Trying to find a solid resolution to this question.

[Chess Pwn]

not.

[Ridiculon]

You are definitely casting them as spells, not a spell-like ability. But the feat is not granting you the ability to cast arcane spells generally, you only have enough ability to cast these two specific cantrips, once per day each.

To have general casting ability it would have to include a line like this:

Wizard wrote:

A wizard casts arcane spells drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list. A wizard must choose and prepare his spells ahead of time.

[Talonhawke]

I could actually see this one going either way. If they aren't SLAs then you do have the ability to cast arcane spells. Now that may not be the intent but I can see the argument.

[Claxon]

Overall, unless you had a class which could cast those spells your caster level would always be 1, and thus Arcane Strike would never scale. Sure, you could use a swift action to do 1 extra point of damage per hit but that's it.

And if your class can already cast then you already qualify for arcane strike.

And, remember it's important to keep in mind that divine classes that might have the same spells as arcane cantrips do not actually count here because it specifies arcane spells, which divine versions are not. So a divine class would not advance the caster level of those cantrips and thusly wouldn't increase the damage for arcane strike.

So, while I'm not sure whether to call the ability a spell or SLA ability, ultimately it's not going to be very useful (as far as I can tell) with Arcane Strike, even if it did work.

[James Risner]

Not sure why Hexcrafter / Bladebound stacking is relevant here. If I remember correctly they don't stack.

Also, I've got dejavu or is there another thread on this with different posts?