Divine Spellpower
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:43 am
I'm extracting this topic to a separate thread as it looks like it got lost in a previous post
So, is there anyone with experience on using Divine Spellpower? I’m experimenting with it on a divine DC caster and I’m not sure how to maximise its usefulness. There are many feats that improve it but I’m unsure which are justified to take. The build will be full CL, with 2 Spellpower feats from Hierophant, all 3 Spell Focus feats, but without Sun Domain (no room for that for RP reasons). The idea is to add another +3 CL from Divine Spellpower. The feat provides variable CL bonus based on a Charisma check. Since this is a divine caster I pump Wisdom and have Charisma at +4 (+2 natural + spell buff). To have +3 CL I need to roll at least 19 modified result or 15 on d20 (30% chance).
Now, the questions are:
So, is there anyone with experience on using Divine Spellpower? I’m experimenting with it on a divine DC caster and I’m not sure how to maximise its usefulness. There are many feats that improve it but I’m unsure which are justified to take. The build will be full CL, with 2 Spellpower feats from Hierophant, all 3 Spell Focus feats, but without Sun Domain (no room for that for RP reasons). The idea is to add another +3 CL from Divine Spellpower. The feat provides variable CL bonus based on a Charisma check. Since this is a divine caster I pump Wisdom and have Charisma at +4 (+2 natural + spell buff). To have +3 CL I need to roll at least 19 modified result or 15 on d20 (30% chance).
Now, the questions are:
- Mastery of Energy (Hierophant) – gives a flat +4 bonus to the roll giving 50% chance of +3 CL. This seems like a no brainer, right?
- Advanced Divine Spellpower – protects negative CL adjustment but with Mastery of Energy it’s only 5% risk. In my testing (having both MoE and ADS as well as Empower Turning) I actually never even rolled zero adjustment (but see point 3 below)… Additionally it allows a CL bonus above +4. However, to be helpful I would need +5 CL (after taking 3rd spellpower feat from Hierophant) or +6 CL. There’s 20% or 5% chance of doing that, respectively (but also see point 3 below). So the benefits of this feat seem to be very low, right?
- Empower Turning – the description indicates it should not affect the Turning Check. However, in my testing I noticed that my rolls improved. On the other hand they never got out of scale (i.e., were not higher than 28). Does anyone have experience with that? If it contributes to Turning Check, then on a roll of 20 you could go to 30

- Improved Turning – does it contribute to Turning Check of Divine Spellpower. I was not even able to test this feat… Does it just give +1 flat bonus; or nothing at all?