Heighten and death aura

[Corino]

Quick question...My friend runs a 12/6/2 wizard/fighter/monk. He says that running heighten on his death aura/neg energy burst makes it go off as if he had wizard caster level 20, and that it's been verified. I am skeptical, especially after scouring the forums and finding nothing but people whining that heighten hits death aura. Any verification for/against this?

[MysteryNotes]

Quick question...My friend runs a 12/6/2 wizard/fighter/monk. He says that running heighten on his death aura/neg energy burst makes it go off as if he had wizard caster level 20, and that it's been verified. I am skeptical, especially after scouring the forums and finding nothing but people whining that heighten hits death aura. Any verification for/against this?

Never heard about this.
Heighten would only increase the save required for monsters to be hit by it, besides he'd only be able to heighten it up to a 6th level spell since he's 12 wiz.

[Phidius]

I am also skeptical - if Heighten does indeed work this way, however, it would not be WAI and likely to be fixed/"nerfed".

[Rusty_Can]

Heighten affects DC, Death Aura and Negative Energy Burst are both lvl 4 spells and the above-mentioned build (12 wiz - 6 - 2) can cast lvl 6 spells. Using Heighten,
- DC of Death Aura and Negative Energy Burst will improve by 2 points;
- casting them will cost more.

People complain because those 2 spells are mainly used by Pale Master for self-healing and not for offense; thus, Heighten is increasing their cost and not providing any benefit. Next update should change things (i.e. how spells, metamagic and hotbars work).