Quote Originally Posted by Starbuck_II View Post
Healing belt or CLW wand (UMD). Remember you auto bypass your own SR.
I made an explicit exception for using UMD/USD on yourself. That doesn't change the fact, however, that making the character marginally usable through massive magic item abuse isn't enough grounds for saying that a penalty is insignificant (after all, a 0 LA half-elf can use UMD as well, and doesn't have to pack gear specifically to counter 9000+ units of class crappiness).

If anything, the "oh you can't play anything with spellcasting/manifesting ever" is itself worth a lot of negative LA, and the SR should be viewed as a hindrance instead of a boon.