
JiggleFloyd |
Hi everyone!
I'm not certain how this is supposed to work and can't find really clear answers. Does someone know with relative certainty how this is supposed to work RAW? If that isn't clear, what do you think RAI are for these questions?
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/prestige-classes/other-paizo/e-h/exalted/
Let's assume I'm a Cleric 10 / Exalted 10.
Questions:
1."The exalted chooses a domain of her chosen deity to which she gains access, using her exalted level as her effective cleric level." So if I choose the Madness Domain, will the domain powers combine Cleric + Exalted levels or will they at most be capped at 10th level [Exalted level cap]?
2."If the exalted has any domain spell slots, she is also able to cast the chosen domain’s spells in those slots as normal." I think this is pretty clear. I assume that I will be able to consider all of the Madness Domain spells as candidates for each domain spell slot all the way up to level 9 spells, not capped at 5th level spells due to the exalted level cap?
3."The exalted can also can use each of the chosen domain’s spells once per day as a spell-like ability, with a caster level equal to her exalted level". So again, do I only get SLA access to only levels 1-5 madness domain spells? Is my caster level capped at 10th level or is it added to my cleric level? I'm also assuming this is a totally separate ability and I can, for example, cast confusion as an SLA and also cast it as my domain spell slot as a normal spell.
Thank you in advance!

Mysterious Stranger |

For your domain powers the levels do not stack. Also you domain powers of your original domains no longer increase. At 20th level you will have 3 domains, but only be counted as 10th level in each.
You now have three choices of spells to fill your domain spells. Those are cast using your full caster level.
The spell-like abilities are limited to your exalted level. So, only level 1-5, and a max caster level of 10th.

Tom Sampson |
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Answer to Question 1
Domain levels from your base class and Exalted prestige class do not stack, unfortunately. There are prestige classes that do stack with existing domain levels (Hellknight Signifer, Stargazer, and Dawnflower Anchorite, for instance), but Exalted, for whatever reason, does not. I'd say that Exalted's domain powers would at most be capped at 10th level but if you are particularly strange you can advance the Exalted prestige class with the Evangelist prestige class and obtain both sets of boons. So if you choose to follow 5 levels of Exalted with 10 levels of Evangelist, you would have 14 levels of Exalted. The last 4 levels of advancing as if you took extra levels in Exalted would do nothing except scale up any class features that scale with Exalted level. This is not particularly worthwhile, especially since you lose a level of advancement thanks to Evangelist, but since we are discussing the upper maximum, I would suspect 14 levels of domain powers from Exalted to be that upper limit, assuming no epic levels.
Answer to Question 2
Correct. Regardless of advancement of domain powers, your access to domain spells scales with your caster level and spell slot. If a Cleric were to enter the Veiled Illusionist prestige class, for instance, he would still obtain access to all his domain spells as he continues advancing spellcasting despite not advancing any of his domain powers. So you would have full access to all 3 domains' spell lists at full caster level for your domain slots. This is also sometimes used as a way for Druids with a domain bond to add a Cleric domain. 6 levels of Druid followed by Exalted with a single Shaping Focus feat gives the Druid sufficient advancement of wild shape for most purposes.
Answer to Question 3
The text "The exalted can use each spell-like ability only if she is able to cast divine spells of that level." uses your spellcasting to determine access to SLAs, meaning that if you can cast a spell of that level, you obtain access to the domain SLA of that level. So if you can cast 9th level spells, you gain all 9 domain spells as a spell-like ability once per day. If you have 6 levels of Druid and 5 levels of Exalted, then you can cast spells of the 6th level, so every domain spell from your Exalted domain from spell levels 1 to 6 is gained as a spell-like ability, and as you continue advancing spellcasting and unlocking higher level spells, you gain access to higher level spell-like abilities.
Just to be clear, spell-like abilities do not have caster level requirements to be usable. An Aasimar can use Daylight as a spell-like ability at level 1 with a caster level of 1, for instance, despite that being a 3rd-level spell, so the caster level of the Exalted spell-like abilities has no bearing on when you unlock them.

zza ni |

Since you are capable to pick a domain you already have as a cleric(and miss out of heaving 3 domains to pick domain spells from) I would allow for that domain to stack with existing cleric domain powers.
say you have the sun and fire domains as a level 7 cleric and pick the sun domain again and have 6 levels of exalted, I would let you gain the domain powers of a level 13 cleric for the sun domain (and only 7th for the fire domain).
the domain slots and sla, as mention above, are a factor of your spell casting ability so they would open as you gain higher level spell level. (but again only from fire and sun domain for spells and the sla from the sun)