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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5044198" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Yeah, CoD is in many ways as good a choice as MM. The range is adequate for 95% of cases and the effect can come in handy now and then at low levels or for that oddball situation where its really worth a standard action to make sure a minion dies. However MM will be pretty good in those situations as well, so its kind of a tossup. Neither one would be my first choice if I had AP available.</p><p></p><p>Expanded Spellbook CAN be a good option for a Wizard who is geared towards being a super utility caster, but I wouldn't pick it up until higher levels at best. If I were building that sort of character specifically though I would probably go with INT/WIS human staff build and toss some points into CHA as my 3rd stat. That gives you a more useful skill mix and lets you really maximize ritual casting utility while still allowing for good control. I think I'd still pick pretty much the same spell load out with that build though, but I might consider TWave to be a better choice of 2nd at-will after Scorching Burst in that case. </p><p></p><p>Overall PHB1-only wizard is pretty constraining. Of all the PHB1 classes wizard really gained by far the most from its power book and even just having items from AV1 and some of the PHB2 feats and MC options really helped a lot. I'd certainly be lobbying my DM hard to at least consider allowing that material into the game at some point, even if just to provide existing PCs with a few new options. The first group I set up was of course PHB1 only, but even they've benefited a LOT from being able to pick up a few things here and there out of the newer books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5044198, member: 82106"] Yeah, CoD is in many ways as good a choice as MM. The range is adequate for 95% of cases and the effect can come in handy now and then at low levels or for that oddball situation where its really worth a standard action to make sure a minion dies. However MM will be pretty good in those situations as well, so its kind of a tossup. Neither one would be my first choice if I had AP available. Expanded Spellbook CAN be a good option for a Wizard who is geared towards being a super utility caster, but I wouldn't pick it up until higher levels at best. If I were building that sort of character specifically though I would probably go with INT/WIS human staff build and toss some points into CHA as my 3rd stat. That gives you a more useful skill mix and lets you really maximize ritual casting utility while still allowing for good control. I think I'd still pick pretty much the same spell load out with that build though, but I might consider TWave to be a better choice of 2nd at-will after Scorching Burst in that case. Overall PHB1-only wizard is pretty constraining. Of all the PHB1 classes wizard really gained by far the most from its power book and even just having items from AV1 and some of the PHB2 feats and MC options really helped a lot. I'd certainly be lobbying my DM hard to at least consider allowing that material into the game at some point, even if just to provide existing PCs with a few new options. The first group I set up was of course PHB1 only, but even they've benefited a LOT from being able to pick up a few things here and there out of the newer books. [/QUOTE]
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