Words of Power for divine caster : divine focus or not ?

[Vrischika111]

as general rule, you'll need a divine focus to cast word spells

rules from SRD

Quote:

Each wordspell is assumed to have a material, somatic, and verbal component.
Divine casters using this system must provide a divine focus instead of a material component

you also have metawords that can change the spell.

Metaword are a (very) limited ressource, one of them being:

SIMPLE wrote:

A wordspell with this meta word does not require a material component

does a "simple" word spell requires divine focus ?

I can see it 2 ways :

1/ simple means no component. so no need to provide divine focus instead
2/ divine spells have no components, only divine focus. simple has no effect

would you allow a few times per day "simple" spells (knowing that using "simple" means you have less use of other metawords)

[Samasboy1]

Material components are not the same thing as Focus components.

Yes, you would still need the divine focus.