Meta magic

[Welsh River]

Can anybody give some basic Idea how Metamagic works in this game.
Thanks.

[Mugiwara]

You can find a breakdown of each of the metamagic here: https://pathfinderwrathoftherighteous.wiki.fextralife.com/Metamagic

As a basic guide::

Bolster for AOE damage spells
Empower for Damage Based Spells
Extend For Time based spells ie 1 minute per level/ 1 round per level/10 minutes etc
Heighten for increasing Difficulty Class (harder to save vs)
Maximise for damage spells
Persistent for spells that requires a saving throw, target has roll twice and take worse result.
Quicken as it says reduces cast time
Reach Increases spell range
Selective makes ally immune to spell effects where AOE is a factor
Completely normal spell reduces spell level requirements by 1.
Favourite Metamagic as above with chosen metamagic.

[Welsh River]

You can find a breakdown of each of the metamagic here: https://pathfinderwrathoftherighteous.wiki.fextralife.com/Metamagic

As a basic guide::

Bolster for AOE damage spells
Empower for Damage Based Spells
Extend For Time based spells ie 1 minute per level/ 1 round per level/10 minutes etc
Heighten for increasing Difficulty Class (harder to save vs)
Maximise for damage spells
Persistent for spells that requires a saving throw, target has roll twice and take worse result.
Quicken as it says reduces cast time
Reach Increases spell range
Selective makes ally immune to spell effects where AOE is a factor
Completely normal spell reduces spell level requirements by 1.
Favourite Metamagic as above with chosen school of magic. [/quote]


thank you.

[hilburnashua]

In order to make use of metamagic feats you need to go into your spellbook. On the bottom left of the spellbook screen is a tab that says "Metamagic". Click that and it opens the metamagic panel.

Now, go to a spell you want to metamagically enhance. Click on it and you should see it appear in the box in the metamagic panel. Above the box you will see all the metamagics feats you have. If any are reddish, that mean you cannot apply that metamagic feat to that spell. This might be because it raises the maximum spell level above 9 or that the feat doesn't work with the spell (such as trying to use Metamagic Empower on a Heroism spell).

So click the metamagic feat you want to apply. Below the spell box is another box that will tell you the what spell level slot the spell will take to cast with that feat applied (Example - fireball is a third level spell, Empower Feat increases the spell level by 2, so it will show as needing a 5th level spell slot). You can apply mulitple metamagic feats so long as you don't exceed the maximum spell level but if the needed spell level is higher then the maximum spell level your character can cast, you won't be able to cast it. Note, while applying all metamagic feats to a spell, except for Heighten, increases the level of the spell slot needed to cast the spell with the metamagic feat this DOES NOT increase the DC of the spell, the DC is still that of the base spell. Heighten metamagic is the exception to this as all it does is increase the spell level in order to increase the DC.

Once you have applied all the metamagic feats you wish to the spell, click the "Write Spell" box at the bottom of the metamagic tab. If you want to, you can add some coloring around the border of the spell to make it more obvious this is metamagically enhanced spell. Once you have clicked the "Write Spell" a new spell icon will appear in you spellbook of the spell in the new spell level. So, Empowered Fireball you would find on the 5th level spell tab.

If you are a class that has to memorize your spells (wizards, clerics, druids, as examples) when you choose your spells to memorize before you rest you will need to choose the metamagically enhanced version of the spell to memorize.

With spontaneous casters, you can choose the spell at the time of casting, making sure you are picking the metamagically enhanced version. However, for all metamagics except Quicken, any spontaneous caster that using a metamagic feat to enhance a spell makes that spell take a full round action to cast.

[Soul]

bolster metamagic is also good for single target spells....

what it does is add 2 damage per die of the spell..... and 2 damage per die as splash damage with the element of the original spell.... within 5ft range of the target

meaning if you cast a bolstered hellfire ray as a 19th level caster..... and converted it from fire to say electricity because you have ascendant element electricity....

thats 3 rays at 15d6...... so 45d6 + 2 per die from bolstered.... which can also stack with other sources of per die such as a matching draconic bloodline which we'll say you have an electric type for an extra 1 per die for electricity spell since its converted......

so thats 45d6 + 2 from bolstered + 1 from bloodline.... = 45d6 + 135 electrical damage.... and 2 per die splash damage of 90 that is fire damage since that part of bolstered spell cant be converted...

[CloudKira]

What about Intensified Spells? Do they also increase the damage of offensive spells?

And does it stack with Maximized, Empowered and Bolstered Metamagics

[Korgan Bloodaxe]

Intensified spell is really good too, for example the level 1 spell snowball is 1D6 per level to a max of 5D6 at level 5 so if your level 10 or 20 its will still be 5D6 MAX. Add intensified and at level 10, it will now do 10D6 which is pretty good for a level 1 spell.

Add bolster and intensified with favoured meta magics and you could do 10D6 plus another 20 from bolster that should still take up a level 1 slot. add maximised and empower and you'll do 200 damage, 400 on a crit and with the mythic critical that could be 600 damage.