Appropriate spell selection and usage makes a lot more of a difference than any amount of power-gamed prestige classes. Get the Spell Compendium book and revise your character's spellbook accordingly.
As soon as a wizard turns level five and is able to cast third-level spells (fireball, lightning bolt, etc) they are no longer wimpy. By character level 10, wizards are godly and any non-casters should just stop playing because the wizard can do everything necessary to overcome the encounter... they're the mage's bodyguard, that's it, only useful for "clearing the trash mobs" to put it in MMO-parlance.
Sorry, but I hate on wizards because they boil down to "Fort save or die" spammers once you've made it through the lower levels.
As soon as a wizard turns level five and is able to cast third-level spells (fireball, lightning bolt, etc) they are no longer wimpy. By character level 10, wizards are godly and any non-casters should just stop playing because the wizard can do everything necessary to overcome the encounter... they're the mage's bodyguard, that's it, only useful for "clearing the trash mobs" to put it in MMO-parlance.
Sorry, but I hate on wizards because they boil down to "Fort save or die" spammers once you've made it through the lower levels.
I agree about choosing the right spells that is why I was recommending the focused conjurer bit. You are throwing away "theoreitcal" versatility to get more "practical versatility." In theory a generalist wizard can cast any spell of the wiz/sorc list as long as he the spell prepared, but you are limited via spell slots. Focused Specialist changes that and conjuration is one of the best schools.
And getting the ability to switch out any spell for any divination spell on the fly is so worth one bonus feat and forcing to take 5 wizard levels before prestiging.
The prestige classes other subsitution options are not for offense but instead for defense. Abrupt Jaunt allows you to teleport instantly in response to other enemeies on their turn for effectively free. The 4th level of IoSFV allows you to raise veils as an immediate action, once again on your enemy turn almost for free. It is like saying raise deflector shields.
Good conjuration spells can be located here (there are similar guides for other schools of magic)
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19869058/Treantmonks_guide_to_Conjuration_Gods_tools
The thing I disagree about is I believe that battlefield control is stronger than the save or die mechanism. Battlefield control almost always works, while save or dies are more like 50/50. I rather have the sure thing.
What a ridiculous and tragic thing...
- 07/03/2010 09:34:55 AM
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Very strange. Sounds like he needs to calm down and realize it's just a game.
- 07/03/2010 10:08:04 AM
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This happens in gaming groups sometimes, there's an easy fix
- 07/03/2010 04:26:17 PM
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Not that he isn't being a jerk, but maybe you could allow that he is right in this fictional world.
- 07/03/2010 05:05:12 PM
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well for one, resurrection isn't SUPPOSED to be cheap and accessible 
- 07/03/2010 06:13:41 PM
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- 07/03/2010 06:13:41 PM
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Why do YOU have be cleared of evil charges? Why does it matter if he calls you evil?
- 08/03/2010 12:38:17 AM
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Because he's taken it out of the game
- 08/03/2010 06:03:37 AM
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Alignments can suck it
- 10/03/2010 04:20:24 PM
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I'm not a fan of them either
- 10/03/2010 10:27:34 PM
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If you think spellcasters are wimps, than you are doing it wrong
- 11/03/2010 02:28:50 AM
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Re: If you think spellcasters are wimps, than you are doing it wrong
- 11/03/2010 02:10:09 PM
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Agree about one thing disagree about another
- 11/03/2010 03:21:20 PM
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Well for me it's like this...
- 11/03/2010 06:19:26 PM
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Oh and I don't see the reduction of damage of damage for mages to be a bad thing
- 11/03/2010 06:30:01 PM
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It's just very different
- 12/03/2010 03:15:43 PM
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If that is what you want to do play an archer/thrower and get a bard ally
- 13/03/2010 01:06:25 AM
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