Practiced Spellcaster

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Type of feat: Spellcasting

Prerequisite: Spellcraft 4 ranks

Required for: None

Specifics: Your caster level for the chosen spellcasting class increases by +4. This can't increase your caster level beyond your HD. However, even if you can't benefit from the full bonus immediately, if you later gain noncaster-level HD you may be able to apply the rest of the bonus.
For example, a human 5th-level cleric/3rd-level fighter who selects this feat would increase his cleric caster level from 5th to 8th (since Cleric+Fighter has a 8 HD). If he later gained a fighter level, he would gain the remainder of the bonus and his cleric caster level would become 9th (since Cleric+Fighter now has 9 HD).

A character with two or more spellcasting classes (such as a bard/sorcerer or a ranger/druid) must choose which class gains the feat's effect. This does not affect your spells per day or spells known. It only increases your caster level, which would help you penetrate SR and increase the duration and other effects of your spells. You may select this feat multiple times. Each time you choose it, you must apply it to a different spellcasting class.
For instance, a 4th-level cleric/5th-level wizard who had selected this feat twice would cast cleric spells as an 8th-level caster and wizard spells as a 9th-level caster.

Use: Automatic

[edit] Gameplay Notes

The Practiced Spellcaster feat will increase the caster level by as much as +4 levels but is only effective for multi-classed spell casters. Paladins and rangers are fully affected by this feat. This means that a paladin 10 / sorcerer 6 with the Practiced spellcaster affecting his paladin levels will cast spells as a 9th level caster (paladin 10 = 5th level + 4 levels from the feat).

[edit] Bug Notes

Normally, the use of this feat operates as described above. However, if used in conjunction with a prestige class that grants additional spellcaster levels, this feat ALWAYS grants +4 caster levels and does not cap at the character's HD as it should. Thus, a Wizard 10 / Eldritch Knight 10 that is using this feat will in fact have a caster level equal to 23 (Wizard 10 + Eldrich Knight levels 2 through 10 + this feat 4).

[edit] As of Patch 1.04

Currently, Practiced Spellcaster is a selectable feat during character level up.