So one of my DM's decided to have us try a one time level 30 epic campaign one-shot. Being an avid min-maxer, I decided that playing a wizard would be best, but my affinity for blasting the crap out of my enemies seems to have gotten the better of me, so I'm strongly considering my feat progression
The iconic blasters are, I believe, metamagic stackers. Something like this:
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=365.msg7187#msg7187Example:
Wizard 5/Incantatrix 10/something 5/Epic Incantatrix 10
Epic Feats (you get 4 from levels and 3 from incantatrix)
Improved Metamagic * 3
Multispell *3
Epic Spellcasting
With a bunch of metamagic feats, you can do something like:
- Maximized Timestop
- Cast 5 spells per round (1 standard, 4 quickened)
- Do this for 4 rounds
- Each spell is a twinned, admixtured, Maximized, Empowered, etc. spell
You might also want to look at warmage 5 (From dragonlance age of mortals)
You might want to look at something that would give you circle magic to boost caster level
You might want to look at Transfer Essense and Consumptive field for more CL boosts, for use with those "don't have a stinking CL cap" spells.
You might want to look at spellgaurd of silverymoon (so your allies aren't subject to your evocative doom).
A rough example (and there is a lot more optimization available):
1 twinned, maximized, admixtured, scuplted, quickened Maw of Chaos (after buffed with Transfer Essense, and Consumptive field), with 5 levels of War mage
CL = 30 * 1.5 (Transfer Essense) * 1.5 (Consumptive Field) = 67
Base Damage from Maw of Chaos = 67 * (1D6 + 3)
Maximized = 67 * 9
Twinned and Admixtured = 67 * 9 * 4 = 2412 HP of damage ... per round ... for 67 rounds.
And this was without much optimization. And you can do it 5 times a round. And you can use delay spell to stack it.
Best,
David