Currently I'm playing a Half-Elf Cleric of Sarenrae, level 5. I'm debating on Prestige Classing to Dawnflower Anchorite (from Paths of the Righteous) at next level. I just want to verify I have this correct: once I Prestige to Dawnflower Anchorite, I will be considered Caster Level 6. Once I take a second level (Cleric 5, Dawnflower Anchorite 2), Caster Level 7. However, even though I'd be at character level 7, it's only Cleric level 5, and therefore would NOT gain access to 4th level Cleric spells.
Is that correct? The terminology "+1 Level of Existing Spellcasting Class" in the book isn't super clear to me.
Edit: d20PFSRD lists it as "Anchorite of Dawn," while the PDF Paths of the Righteous calls it "Dawnflower Anchorite."
You do get access to 4th level spells, but not until your second level of Dawnflower Anchorite because Anchorite doesn’t add to caster level until the 2nd prestige level. After that, it’s as if you gained a cleric level with each Anchorite level for the purposes of your spellcasting class feature, but you’ll always be one level behind normal cleric progression.
Excellent, thank you for the clarification!
Note that you can take the Prestigious Spellcaster feat (also from Paths of the Righteous) to buy back that lost level of spellcasting progression.
Can’t edit, I mean 3rd level of Dawnflower Anchorite for 4th level spells. You’ll be cleric 5/Anchorite 3 = cleric caster level 7 = 4th level spells.
Somewhat in this same vein, how would the Exalted prestige class (Inner Sea Gods) interact with base Cleric class features? The way I've always read it, if you're a Cleric 5 then prestige to XYZ class, you have all Cleric class features up to Cleric 5, then whatever you gain at new prestige class 1.
I'm specifically asking after the "Obedience" class feature, which states:
In order to maintain the abilities granted by this prestige class, including all abilities gained from aligned class, an evangelist must perform a daily obedience to her chosen deity.
If I don't do the daily obedience, would I lose ALL my Cleric class features? Or would I only lose any class features gained from the "Aligned Class" Exalted class feature?
For convenience, Aligned Class states:
Evangelists come from many different backgrounds, and they show an unusual range of diversity. At 2nd level, the evangelist must choose a class she belonged to before adding the prestige class to be her
aligned class. She gains all the class features for this class, essentially adding every evangelist level beyond 1st to her aligned class to determine what class features she gains. She still retains the Hit Dice, base attack bonus, saving throw bonuses, and skill ranks of the prestige class, but gains all other class features of her aligned class as well as those of the evangelist prestige class.
Aligned Class is an Evangelist class feature. The Exalted Prestige Class doesn’t get it, so it’s not relevant. But in that case (if you were an Evangelist) you would only lose the advancement of your base class du to the aligned class feature. So your Channel Energy would drop down to the 3d6 you get from 5 cleric levels.
As Exalted, your Channel Energy etc is just 3d6 anyway. But yeah, your spellcasting ability collapses as Exalted if you miss an obedience. Don’t.
master.h wrote: I'm specifically asking after the "Obedience" class feature, which states:
In order to maintain the abilities granted by this prestige class, including all abilities gained from aligned class, an evangelist must perform a daily obedience to her chosen deity.
You've quoted the text from the Evangelist prestige class, not the Exalted prestige class.
D'oh, sorry for the confusion. I meant to talk about the Evangelist class; Exalted was a typo. Thanks again for the clarification!
master.h wrote: If I don't do the daily obedience, would I lose ALL my Cleric class features? Or would I only lose any class features gained from the "Aligned Class" Exalted class feature? The relevant part is "including all abilities gained from aligned class" - not from your aligned class (which would be Cleric), but from "aligned class", which is the class feature of the same name. That class feature would stop to work, meaning your effective Cleric level drops back to, in this example, 5.
In practice, you're screwed either way, but most obediences are rather easy to do, so this shouldn't be a real problem. You shouldn't pick one of these evil deities with a "kill a person each day" obedience, though.
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