Archmage Prestige Enhancement issue

[shadowdragon00]

I have also posted this in the wizards class section to see if any other wizards might have experienced this problem. However, after looking into it a bit more myself, I am starting to think it MAY be a bug... but will see what comes out of posting it here...

First things first.

My char level is 18 ( used another char L12 to test an idea on )

I have all required feats and more ( I would think )

I have greater spell focus enchantment
mental toughness
improved mental toughness as well as other metamagic feats

for enhancments:

I took Wizards Energy of the scholar I and II
Improved Concentration I and II
Wizards INT I
as well as a few more to bring me to 16 APs.

with that one would assume that I should be able to take archmage, however I cannot. it is grayed out and I can only see it when I select " show unavailable "

I tested an Idea but using my L12 Rogue/wizzy multiclass 9/3 at the moment plenty good enough to mess around with the enhancements...

Iswapped a feat or 2 to let me test this. I took the spell focus and mental toughness feats. Redid my enhancements.

I made sure I had spell focus ( not greater just plain spell focus )
made sure I had mental toughness ( not improved or anything just the basic mental toughness )

made sure I had improved concentration II, Wizards energy of the scholar II, and Wizards INT I.

guess what folks, it worked...

only think I can surmise is that there is some issue with greater spell focus over plain L1 spell focus... and that it might very well be a bug...

Thoughts / suggestions anyone?

thanks for listening and I will be awaiting feedback / support...

[Enfira]

The requirement is spell focus feat, not greater spell focus. If you don't have spell focus you don't meet the requirements. Interesting though, I hadn't realized that you could take greater spell focus without first taking spell focus.

[Missing_Minds]

Interesting though, I hadn't realized that you could take greater spell focus without first taking spell focus.

Yeap. I always considered that a bug and it has been that way in the game for a long time.

[shadowdragon00]

this char is about 4 years old...

I believe a long time ago, I took the spell focus and then upgraded to greater spell focus... and it now displays only as " Greater Spell Focus "

I could be mistaken in my memories.... but I think that was what happened...

I would make the assumption that if you had " Greater Spell Focus " you would automatically be granted the fact that you had " Spell Focus "

but that is just me...

nearly 3am for me... will do bug report tomorrow... !!! too tired now...

[Eladrin]

In ages long ago, you were able to freely take either Spell Focus or Greater Spell Focus - they each had the same effect of granting a +1 to the DC's of the associated school. In the DDO: Eberron Unlimited launch, we changed Greater Spell Focus to require Spell Focus in that school.

Greater Spell Focus: <School> now has Spell Focus: <School> as a prerequisite. Existing characters that possess Greater Spell Focus without the regular version will be unaffected by this change.

[shadowdragon00]

From your comment I am assuming that the issue that I am experiencing is a bug. And will therefore tomorrow fill out a bug report.

as it will not let me take the archmage enhancement line.

I will check to see if there are further comments before I submit my bug report however.

Thank you so very much for your feedback, it is indeed much appreciated.