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<blockquote data-quote="Dessert Nomad" data-source="post: 7536538" data-attributes="member: 6976536"><p>Wizards have the best form of ritual casting by default; they can ritual cast any spell in their spellbook without having to prepare it. Ritual casters and warlocks who take Book of Secrets can do basically the same thing, but it costs them more. I think a lot of players underestimate just how nice being able to cast things like detect magic, unseen servant, and leomund's hut without having to burn a spell slot or even prepare the spell is, and wizards can do it from level 1. </p><p></p><p>Wizards get the wizard spell list, which has some really impressive spells that basically no one else gets and a lot of pretty much everything but healing. Lore Bards can dip a little but that's a 'your special ability is to get a little of what wizards get a lot of'. I haven't delved into the Bard spell list, but the wizard list also has a lot of crowd and battlefield control spells, and I wouldn't be surprised if they can beat a bard at that game. Wizard subclasses have a ton of really good abilities. Some of them are 'meh', but ones like diviner, abjurer, illusionist, and transmuter are really good, and very unique.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dessert Nomad, post: 7536538, member: 6976536"] Wizards have the best form of ritual casting by default; they can ritual cast any spell in their spellbook without having to prepare it. Ritual casters and warlocks who take Book of Secrets can do basically the same thing, but it costs them more. I think a lot of players underestimate just how nice being able to cast things like detect magic, unseen servant, and leomund's hut without having to burn a spell slot or even prepare the spell is, and wizards can do it from level 1. Wizards get the wizard spell list, which has some really impressive spells that basically no one else gets and a lot of pretty much everything but healing. Lore Bards can dip a little but that's a 'your special ability is to get a little of what wizards get a lot of'. I haven't delved into the Bard spell list, but the wizard list also has a lot of crowd and battlefield control spells, and I wouldn't be surprised if they can beat a bard at that game. Wizard subclasses have a ton of really good abilities. Some of them are 'meh', but ones like diviner, abjurer, illusionist, and transmuter are really good, and very unique. [/QUOTE]
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