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So I am currently playing in a group of seven thassalonian sin mages. I am lust, so an enchantment specialist. I just hit lv 9 and have quite a bit of prestige saved up and I'm really looking at my build and wondering how to improve it.
I'm currently wizard 8, crossblooded undead impossible sorcerer 1. Now the wizard levels are pretty well sorted out, but I'm questioning my choice of my bloodlines. The bloodline arcana's of my build right now let me effect humanoid corporeal undead with humanoid spells and impossible let's me effect constructs as if they were living and not mindless. However just about every construct we have fought was immune to magic, and so many of the undead are either not humanoid or are incorporeal. There is also a necromancer so he usually has that covered anyway. I've been looking at fey and arcana as that would increase my DC by 3 on compulsions with metamagic. I could get robes of arcane heritage so I would get the 1st 3rd and any 5th level powers from the bloodlines. But the fey and arcana powers are pretty much useless for me.
Any opinions or ideas that I'm missing? Would greatly appreciate some fellow casters to find some flaws or improvements to my wizard.
Are you playing an AP? If so, which one?
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Having played a variety of enchantment-focused casters, I can say that a sorcerer dip isn't necessary and will probably weaken your character.
The Impossible bloodline ability is a very niche thing; as you have seen, most constructs worth affecting with enchantments are immune to magic. It's great in theory, but ends up being a 'who cares?' kind of thing at the table. Those constructs not immune to magic can usually be blasted or smashed with minimal difficulty. Create Pit is probably a more effective way of dealing with them anyhow.
While it's nice to be able to affect undead with enchantments, you don't need to dip a level in sorcerer to do that. And as you say, your necromancer usually has that part covered.
Besides, you're an Enchanter! Why don't you send a minion or three to go fight the undead for you while you hang back and flip through a Pathfinder Chronicle or something? Geas, Lesser has been available for this purpose since 7th level, and now at 9th level you have access to Dominate.
Take a look at Threnodic and Ectoplasmic spell metamagic. A lesser rod of Threnodic spell with the Wizard spell list gives you a lot of options for enchanting undead. It's also pretty cheap. Ectoplasmic spell is worth it if you're running into a lot of incorporeal undead, and is absolutely brutal when combined with Telekinesis.
Even Fey bloodline is probably not worth the investment, since it drops your spellcasting one level behind where it would otherwise be (among other things). You have more efficient and effective ways to boost save DCs, and accessing more spells earlier than other casting classes is a huge advantage.