Frozen_Heart
Hero
I'm getting a ton of use from thunderous smite with my earth genasi artificer armourer. My DM let me pick it because it's very on theme for the character. It may not be optimal, but punching people across the room is cool af.I do not consider the idea that the Bard needs to have spells that Wizards don't to actually be meaningful. In fact, I don't consider ANY spell that only one class gets to be meaningful in any way. Because what matters is what actually shows up and is played at the table.
The paladin has had their own set of unique Smite spells this entire time. And speaking personally... I have never seen a single one ever get cast in any game I have run. So the fact the paladin class has these unique spells has been absolutely meaningless to the game. And thus the idea that Clerics might now be able to cast them because they are both in this so-called 'Divine Spell List' is just as meaningless. Another class is now going to be allowed to not cast a number of spells.
Obviously some of you feel different. That's fine. But it's all a matter of perspective.
However for some reason most of those spells are only on the paladin list, which is the exact class which would never use them. Far better to just dump all your slots on divine smite instead.
Ranger has a couple of them, but their bonus action is already over-full so they can't make good use of them. Artificer doesn't get any, but would be the best suited to use them of the half casters.