And as already pointed out multiple times, gate has been severly nerfed in PF, because not only it is limited to HD=CL, there's no more monsters with HD lower than CR. So a candle of invocation in PF is not an auto-win against any pre-epic challenge.FrankTrollman wrote: As others have already pointed out, Pathfinder also has broken stuff in it, so if you play "all dicks on the table" then Pathfinder and 3.5 Wizards are exactly the same power. They are both powerful enough to run the game into the ground at about level 9 if not before. So it's basically a meaningless point of comparison. And even if the comparison point was meaningful, it still wouldn't give you an answer, because breaking the game is the same end point in both cases. Candles of Invocation exist in both games, and Pathfinder characters have more wealth by level. I think the theoretical optimization takeoff point for pure RAW wankery is like one level earlier in Pathfinder.
It was also explained multiple times how 3.5 casters can and will have more wealth by level. PF only pulls ahead if you add houserules to 3.5 and allow PF 100% free reign.
As for scrolls, time stop. You just chain time-stop scrolls and drop other scroll spells that work during time stop. You win everything in 1 round of real time in any tome game with just that, and your class/build doesn't matter as long as you can use scrolls.
And then you take the Mona Lisa from the cold dead hands of the fools who used their wishes for anything but a massive pile of scrolls.