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REferences for the options I cite? Do you mean how I'm applying the rules? I'm not sure I understand. Most of this stuff is the result of Optimizers on the WoTC board having fun.

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Wands are normally limited to level 4 or less...part of the magic item creation process.

www.d20srd.org/srd/magicI...atingWands

Thus, I wouldn't let you Heighten a spell higher then the wand could hold.

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Staves can hold any level of spell...but are typically made, like all items, at the lowest caster level. Since all published examples of staves have multiple spells, you could easily restrict the staff to the highest spell level it was made to cast.

So, for instance, if you get a staff with Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt and Shocking Grasp, you could Heighten all the spells to level Six, the highest level inside the staff.

IF someone made a staff with a high caster level, instead of the minimum, perhaps you could use the 1/2 caster level rule, instead. So a Staff of Fire made at 14th level instead of 8 could get all its spells Heightened to 7th with the right infusion.

I'm just throwing ideas out...there really is no precedent for this. Maybe you can really Heighten everything to level 9...but we need a ruling.

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Improved Heighten Spell allows you to Heighten a spell to any limit, otherwise its restricted to level 9. It's Epic.

www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/f...ghtenSpell

Without some limit on it, you could take this for an Infusion and Heighten something infinitely...there's 'no cap.' Level 200 save or die spell for the win, tyvm.

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The UMD abuse thread is an old and honored thing on the Optimizer boards...you can probably find it with a search function.

www.d20srd.org/srd/skills...Device.htm

The key area is Emulate Class Feature.

Sometimes you need to use a class feature to activate a magic item. In this case, your effective level in the emulated class equals your Use Magic Device check result minus 20. This skill does not let you actually use the class feature of another class. It just lets you activate items as if you had that class feature. If the class whose feature you are emulating has an alignment requirement, you must meet it, either honestly or by emulating an appropriate alignment with a separate Use Magic Device check (see above).

So, I'm an Artificer. I'm going to use a Staff. My UMD check is, oh, +60 (Trust me, not hard at higher levels with competence boosting items!). My effective caster level with this staff is my check -20. On average, when I grab up my happy staff o' Doom (TM), I now have a caster level of...50. (My take 10 check for being an 10th+ Artificer, +60 check, -20 for emulation).

I think you can see where this would be a problem.

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For Metamagic Infusion, I believe the precedent is that if you cast the same spell twice on something, only the duration of the second one applies.

The Argument here is that these are 'two seperate infusions, not the same infusion twice.' In other words, infusing Twin and Quicken using the same infusion gets around the 'same infusion' restriction, despite the fact you are using the exact same magic base twice...because the results are different.

Keith Baker shrugged and called the effect a 'slot'...if you cast the infusion twice, the second effect bumps the first one out, so they don't stack.

Metamagic Infusion is a level 3 Artificer infusion that allows you to infuse a Metamagic feat into a magical item that takes effect every time it is triggered (for the duration of the infusion). The same thing can be done with Metamagic Spell Trigger (class ability of the Artificer)...it would be good if you ruled the same restriction applied to the Spell Trigger, otherwise people are going to be making up the 7k Scorching Ray O' Doom attack by burning 50 charges on stacking metamagic feats for a 288d6 Scorching Ray attack for the win.

The Main use of abuse for this ability is detailed under the very long Optimized Artificers thread on the WotC board, which stacks infusions on infusions for 'insta-kills' as needed.

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Sorry if it's a little disorganized, but the abuse potential is too high for these points not to be addressed for the good of the game.

==Aelryinth

The stacking of feats ignores the metacap, ND. Infusions have nothing to do with the metacap.

A Blastificer can most certainly cram all those feats in if built to the solution. Don't believe me, find the thread! The concept is built around dealing max dmg with no save and potentially no SR spells...Scorching Ray and the Elemental Orb spells.

==Aelryinth