Heightening Powers above "spell" level 9

[Halcyon_Janissary]

I can't tell if this is my math, my missing a detail, or if I'm reading this right..

A power (like a monks Ki Blast or Paladins LoH) automatically heightens to 1/2 level rounded up, what happens when 1/2 your level rounded up exceeds 9?

For example:
A level 3 power, Ki Blast Regular = 4d4, +2d4 for each level its heightened.
So at spell level 4 (character level 7) it does 6d4, and so on.

But at character level 17 (unlikely though such characters are) the power does 16d4 (reasonable for character level, I think) as a "level 10" spell. The next and final upgrade comes in at level 19, increasing damage to 18d4 (again, fair I think) but making the "spell level" 11?

I mean, prolly this isn't a big deal since spell level doesn't really mean much anymore, but all my PF1 / 3.X instincts tell me I'm missing something.

...Am I?

Thanks

[Claxon]

I can't remember the wording for those abilities, but do they even reference spells at all?

I'm pretty sure they're just abilities that scale off of level.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Not positive I'm reading your concern correctly; are you saying that 17/2 rounded up is 10 and 19/2 rounded up is 11? Because that's off by one;
17/2 = 8.5 => 9 not 10,
19/2 = 9.5 => 10 not 11.
There are level 10 spells (or just slots? I forget now), so that's all ok.

[Halcyon_Janissary]

Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:

Not positive I'm reading your concern correctly; are you saying that 17/2 rounded up is 10 and 19/2 rounded up is 11? Because that's off by one;

17/2 = 8.5 => 9 not 10,
19/2 = 9.5 => 10 not 11.
There are level 10 spells (or just slots? I forget now), so that's all ok.

Cripes, your math is right, I don't know how I got 10th and 11th. ‍

In any case, yeah this makes sense with the new 10th level spell cap. Cheers