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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 8077402" data-attributes="member: 5834"><p>1. Yes. You can shoot a bow fine. A bow is 1+ hands, not two hands. It is a subtle difference in the hands listing making the bow an ideal weapon for a caster. Now a crossbow is 2 hands and I don't recommend it.</p><p></p><p>4. Depends on what you want to add. You could take something like <em>Blessed One</em> to add a heal option. Beastmaster for an animal companion weapon for that extra action. MC into sorcerer and take some bloodline magic since these are better than wizard focus spells. I like undead bloodline or elemental.</p><p></p><p>No. Pure wizard doesn't. I've come to the conclusion the wizard, fighter, and cleric are best when multiclassed. They have a lot of dead level feats and a very simple chassis. Clerics heal best. Wizards can cast a lot of spells. Fighters hit things well. Other than those very simple abilities, they don't do anything else very well.</p><p></p><p>My buddy is playing a fighter. He does good damage. But he pretty much does the same thing over and over again. He chose Power Attack and swings a second time. Round after round after round. The cleric only shines when he heals with an occasional spell here and there. The wizard casts more and varied spells than other classes more times per day.</p><p></p><p>My fighter buddy MCed into Hell Knight. My cleric buddy MCed into sorcerer. My wizard buddy MCed into Dragon Disciple mostly for fun.</p><p></p><p>I have a wizard/sorcerer MC with one of the weapon types for my next wizard attempt. I do not believe by spellcasting alone you will feel very worthwhile consistently as a wizard at low level. Here and there with a nice group of failed saves, your AoE will feel great. But single target you better add in a weapon attack to keep up.</p><p></p><p>Right now my druid at lvl 8 is keeping up quite handily with the martials. But part of her damage is her animal companion and her bow shot. If she were relying on spells alone like the wizard often does, she would fall behind. I really think the wizard needs to focus on a weapon as well as his spells to fully take advantage of his action opportunities. It's not like 1E where he has half the chance to hit of a martial. His first hit has a good chance of hitting in this edition. A good weapon with a cantrip might have been calculated into why cantrips and spells are set up as they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 8077402, member: 5834"] 1. Yes. You can shoot a bow fine. A bow is 1+ hands, not two hands. It is a subtle difference in the hands listing making the bow an ideal weapon for a caster. Now a crossbow is 2 hands and I don't recommend it. 4. Depends on what you want to add. You could take something like [I]Blessed One[/I] to add a heal option. Beastmaster for an animal companion weapon for that extra action. MC into sorcerer and take some bloodline magic since these are better than wizard focus spells. I like undead bloodline or elemental. No. Pure wizard doesn't. I've come to the conclusion the wizard, fighter, and cleric are best when multiclassed. They have a lot of dead level feats and a very simple chassis. Clerics heal best. Wizards can cast a lot of spells. Fighters hit things well. Other than those very simple abilities, they don't do anything else very well. My buddy is playing a fighter. He does good damage. But he pretty much does the same thing over and over again. He chose Power Attack and swings a second time. Round after round after round. The cleric only shines when he heals with an occasional spell here and there. The wizard casts more and varied spells than other classes more times per day. My fighter buddy MCed into Hell Knight. My cleric buddy MCed into sorcerer. My wizard buddy MCed into Dragon Disciple mostly for fun. I have a wizard/sorcerer MC with one of the weapon types for my next wizard attempt. I do not believe by spellcasting alone you will feel very worthwhile consistently as a wizard at low level. Here and there with a nice group of failed saves, your AoE will feel great. But single target you better add in a weapon attack to keep up. Right now my druid at lvl 8 is keeping up quite handily with the martials. But part of her damage is her animal companion and her bow shot. If she were relying on spells alone like the wizard often does, she would fall behind. I really think the wizard needs to focus on a weapon as well as his spells to fully take advantage of his action opportunities. It's not like 1E where he has half the chance to hit of a martial. His first hit has a good chance of hitting in this edition. A good weapon with a cantrip might have been calculated into why cantrips and spells are set up as they are. [/QUOTE]
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