It was never a great choice for banning, but incantatrix means that doing so looks even worse.Дo note that incantatrix forces you to ban another spell school. The 3.5 version requires you to have access (read: not have banned) abjuration. Abusing metamagic is one of the most tried-and-true ways to break the game, and no one does that as well as an incantatrix. Incantatrix (3.0 version in Magic of FaerГ»n, 3.5 version in PlayerвЂ™s Guide to FaerГ»n) is one of the most powerful prestige classes in the game (either version). ItвЂ™s not like preparing dispel magic in abundance was ever a bad idea. ItвЂ™s decent, but ultimately I think the spell slots are better.

It replaces your specialist slots, though, and burns yet more slots because you need four spell levels to manage dispel magic and seven to manage greater dispel magic. This effect is pretty good you can turn your lower-level spell slots into dispel magic or greater dispel magic, and donвЂ™t need to prepare it. Worse yet, itвЂ™s usable Вј of your wizard level times per day, and replaces your bonus feats. If this were the immediate magic option, itвЂ™d be worth considering, but itвЂ™s a standard action to turn on. +Int to AC and to saves, which is good, but only against the next attack/thing that requires a save, which is not. The familiarвЂ™s better, though this is probably better than urgent shield. Not terribly impressive, and the amount of resistance is just 5 + ВЅ your wizard level. Resistance to one energy type, once per day, for one target, as a standard action. The master abjurer is particularly good, making it harder to dispel your abjurations, combo evasion+mettle, and even, at higher levels, allowing you to center personal-emanation abjurations (read: antimagic field) on others (3/day, but still). It might be stylish for very-low levels, I guess. You can get that with a mithral buckler (0% ASF, 0 ACP, so you take absolutely no penalty from it despite non-proficiency), which you can afford around level 5 or 6. The abjurerвЂ™s immediate magic option is pretty mediocre: a +2 shield bonus to AC. Focused AbjurerДЄbjurations are good, but you donвЂ™t need abjuration spell slots this badly. Still, itвЂ™s probably possible to find at least one abjuration of each level thatвЂ™s worth casting at least once per day, so abjuration isnвЂ™t a bad choice by any means. A lot of the best abjurations last a reasonably long time, and you probably donвЂ™t need a ton of abjuration-only spell slots. Specializing in abjuration is probably not the best choice, as far as spell slots are concerned. You do not want to leave your party without access to, e.g., dispel magic. If you must ban 3 schools, abjuration is a viable choice, but only if someone else has abjurations. not a focused specialist, who needs to ban 3 schools), though, there are definitely better choices to ban.

That said, a lot of the best abjurations are also on the cleric spell list-if youвЂ™ve got a cleric in the party, he may be able to handle abjurations, which could make it possible to ban abjuration safely. Schools of Magic AbjurationДЄbjuration is certainly a potent school, not one that you want to be without. Unearthed Arcana has a number of specialist wizard variants, which allow him to trade away his bonus feats, his familiar, and/or his bonus specialist spell slots for bonuses that depend on his specialty.

IвЂ™ll be considering it as a part of the potential benefits of specializing in a given school. This prestige class from Complete Mage grants different benefits depending on which school of magic a wizard has specialized in. PlayerвЂ™s Handbook II has options that allow a specialist to replace his familiar with a minor (.in some cases) magical effect that he may use as an immediate action, up to Int times per day. For most, this is a bad trade: banning three schools is a lot harder than banning two, and trading a regular spell slot for a specialist spell slot isnвЂ™t a great trade either. Focused SpecializationД¬omplete Mage gives an option to ban another spell school and give up a regular spell slot per spell level, for another two specialist spell slots per spell level. The extra spell slots are the intrinsic benefit of specializing, but they are not the only benefits: a number of wizard alternate class features only work for those specializing in a particular school.

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