Please bring back Spell Casting and Spell Books

[PrimalConcreteSledge]

The problem of with SLA at epic levels is that they all required you to be in close range. As casters we have no armor, we have little to no doge. The only thing we really have going for us is blur and displacement. One cast of true seeing and we have no defense at all. WE DO NOT LIKE GETTING CLOSE TO MOBS. WE ARE SQUISHY!

1k hp shirady wf with quickened reconstruct is a common sight. I'd say casters are prolly more survivable than most melee that need to actually fight face to face with mobs and put their ability points in something other than con.

[jbendoski]

Some other things that might be nice to help various schools of magic:

Paralyzing Fear: All fear spells you cast have a 20/40/60% chance to render mobs frozen in fear making them helpless even if they save. All failed saves result in this effect.
Endless Fear: A toggle that applies the phantasmal killer effect to all spells you cast 7/14/21% and uses your Illusion DC (instead of a static DC)

Arcane Aura: All creatures with 5 ft. of caster take a -5 saves penalty (Because we don't like getting close to mobs remember!)

Suicidal tendencies: Activate this ability to force all creature under your charm and domination effects to commit suicide. 70/80/90% effective. (could be some type of connection here to the "Sacrifice the Willing.")

The Spiders Hand: All spells you cast have a chance to spawn a web effect using your conjuration DC 7/14/21%
Gaze of the Medusa: Same as above but with Flesh to Stone.

Siphon: any target creatures currently effected by you crowd control spells or effects with lose 5% hp every 2 seconds.