How to avoid expensive spell components?

[Vodoff]

Many spells worth casting have expensive material components that are consumed upon casting (like 5000g of diamond for raise dead). What ways are there to avoid costs like this?
A few weeks back I could have sworn that I stumbled across a feat that allowed you to cast a spell at least 1 level below your highest without spending the material component once a day but now I can't find it for the life of me (may be in some obscure splatbook somewhere.) In my search I found a robe that gives 50gp worth of spell components a day, the basic eschew materials feat, and invested magic to use gold instead of the specific component. Anyone know the feat I am failing to find, or another way to reduce/ ignore spell costs?

[avr]

False focus is a feat to look at if you're willing to worship a fake god. I think the feat you found wasn't by Paizo.

Shadow conjuration/evocation/etc. can simulate spells without requiring their material components.

The blood money spell won't be available in every campaign (it was specifically made for/by an isolated BBEG spellcaster in an adventure path and may be considered broken in ordinary use), but it does do what you're after.

[zza ni]

if you can get them as spell like ability you don't need to provide the material.

my go to for a lot of these is the Exalted prestige class as he get to pick a cleric domain (or subdomain) and get the bonus spells as sla he can use.

for example the magic domain(divine sub domain) would net you among the sla :
2nd—bless water (25 gp cost) 7th—resurrection (10,000 gp), 9th—miracle (can get to 25,000 and more and can duplicate other spells).

and the magic domain (rites sub-domain) can give:
5th—permanency (varied costs depend on what spell one use it on)

An other option is oracle with the oracle dragon mystrey who can pick the dragon magic revolution which would allow a spell like ability of any one wizard\sorcerer spell up to 7th level.(or 2 up to 6th)

(i actually had a build for oracle\exalted going for divine subdomain and dragon magic for lesser wish. ending with sla for miracle,lesser wish, resurrection and the Exalted semi-miracle class ability. named him 'Shenron the wish grating dragon[oracle]').

[Vodoff]

zza ni wrote:

if you can get them as spell like ability you don't need to provide the material.

my go to for a lot of these is the Exalted prestige class as he get to pick a cleric domain (or subdomain) and get the bonus spells as sla he can use.

for example the magic domain(divine sub domain) would net you among the sla :
2nd—bless water (25 gp cost) 7th—resurrection (10,000 gp), 9th—miracle (can get to 25,000 and more and can duplicate other spells).

and the magic domain (rites sub-domain) can give:
5th—permanency (varied costs depend on what spell one use it on)

An other option is oracle with the oracle dragon mystrey who can pick the dragon magic revolution which would allow a spell like ability of any one wizard\sorcerer spell up to 7th level.(or 2 up to 6th)

(i actually had a build for oracle\exalted going for divine subdomain and dragon magic for lesser wish. ending with sla for miracle,lesser wish, resurrection and the Exalted semi-miracle class ability. named him 'Shenron the wish grating dragon[oracle]').

Thanks! Those two classes seem to be what I was looking for, the exalted prestige class seems really useful, giving SLA at your highest effective spell level but restricted to what is on the domain list. The Oracle dragon mystery is interesting since it gives whatever spell you want, but at a reduced effective level and only 1 or 2 spells. Do you know of any other way to get whatever spell you want as a SLA?

[Theaitetos]

Vodoff wrote:

The Oracle dragon mystery is interesting since it gives whatever spell you want, but at a reduced effective level and only 1 or 2 spells.

Yeah, but you can simply forge several Lesser Rings of Revelation for 5k gold per piece, that each contain the Dragon Magic revelation and thereby add as many spells as you want as SLA. And as a Half-Elf you can use Paragon Surge to take Extra Revelation (Dragon Magic) and add just the right SLAs whenever you need them for the day.