Gate's almost the perfect spell, except every time you gate in a Solar or some other plane-shattering monster, you lose XP. Sure, in a regular game you'd make it back (likely in that very fight), but I'm wondering if there's any way to waive that completely.
Here's my failed attempts so far:
- A certain reading of the rules would make it possible with a Shadowcraft Mage, but the subschool is Calling rather than Creation. Any way to change that?
- A Thought Bottle would mitigate the cost. The way I see it, you have to pay 500 XP every time you use the Thought Bottle, so you'd still be losing XP every time, albeit less.
- Candles of Invocation, but a) you can't cheese up your caster level to gate in bigger, badder stuff, and b) it's gold rather than XP you're now hemorrhaging, which is still not optimal.
Anything else then?