How best to utilize the Pathfinder Savant's 10th-level capstone (Item Master)


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For those of you not yet in the Know, the newly released Adventurer's Guide made several changes to the Pathfinder Savant prestige class (more on that here). Among other changes, they extended the prestige class by 3 levels and added several new class abilities, one of which is Item Master.

Item Master (truncated):
You can attune a single magical item to yourself. That specific item can use your caster level to resolve its effects rather than the item’s caster level. You can only be attuned to one item at a time.

I'm looking for ideas on how best to take advantage of this ability. Right off the top of my head, you can use it with a hat of disguise or ring of invisibility to dramatically extend the duration of their effects (which works rather nicely with the Savant's ability to quietly activate them). Another idea was to use an at-will ring of telekinesis, making it far stronger than its initial CL 9 would indicate.

However, there are THOUSANDS of items out there. Surely, there are some that combo extremely well. What are your thoughts? :D

Sovereign Court

Wands mostly, quite honestly most of the other magic items used often are the passive bonuses one where increasing the CL doesn't do anything.


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Eltacolibre wrote:

Wands mostly, quite honestly most of the other magic items used often are the passive bonuses one where increasing the CL doesn't do anything.

Pathfinder Savants get a similar ability for all spell completion items. Would scrolls not be cheaper/more versatile than wands?

Sovereign Court

Yeah they would be and other consumables in general, well magic item consumables, benefit often from higher CL from potions of cure light wounds, to scrolls, wands etc...


Scrolls would be great with it. Excepting the basics of supply, of course. Making a scroll of whatever is great but buying a single wand is easier than finding 50 of something.

That being said most wands are capped for healing, the most common wand purchase. This us actually best for scrolls that last 10 min to an hour per level.

Basic buff spells like cats grace could be an easy scroll to make. Scrolls like that where duration matters and it's low level so cheap to make.

The lower level the better, cheaper.

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