Ek to wizard break points are at 7 (war magic), 10 (eldritch strike) or 12 (feats + caster level 4). To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. D&D 5E Spellcasting Rules Explained In A Way That Actually You determine your available spell slots by adding together all your levels in the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, and wizard classes, and half your levels (rounded down) in the paladin and ranger classes. Dnd 5e eldritch knight multiclass spell slots . Given the terms used, it has to be 5e. So you're a level 2 spellcaster on the table. But on wizard you follow there rules. That means that a cleric 1/wizard 19 can use a 9th level spell slot to cast cure wounds. Spell slots, eldritch knight / arcane trickster build (+ feedback) as an experiment, i just made a character on the javascript character creator and as a lv. You definitely don't want to go before 7 unless you're doing gwm or some other really high damage...