D&D 5E Overrated Wizard Spells

[Ashrym]

@BigBadDM @ad_hoc Many of those spells are also slotted to concentration (blindness isn't) so they have a huge opportunity cost that armor doesn't.

 

[BigBadDM]

The problem with most of your solutions to not being attacked is that they cost actions.

This is why I don't like conjecturing scenarios. Cause we can go on and on about this or that and really not have a synopsis. Picking an overrated spell has less to do with scenarios than mechanics. Of course you can only concentrate on one spell - and of course somethings cause battlefield chaos. We can talk 'all day' about illusions. And Action Economy. But I'd still rather have the ability to have 4 first level spell slots than 3 due to Mage Armor. It's still a trap spell.

 

[Yardiff]

So cast mage armor then take a short rest and you back to full spell slots.

 

[Gladius Legis]

Wish.

9th level spells are a bit of a letdown; and wish just kind of sucks.

Yeah, I said it.

Wish -> Simulacrum and Wish -> Clone have words for you.

 

[BigBadDM]

you don't have the same experience in the game as, well, anybody.

Uh, that is a pretty big presumption. I actually play in several groups and a few AL leagues as a wizard. I rarely get hit or targeted-- and when I say rarely I should be more clear. I might get hit 1 to 3 times a combat, but it is nothing I can't shrug off. Without Shield, that number might go up to 4-6

Also as I mentioned if you are are playing with 2 other PCs (or really 3--cause I was being tongue and check) you are more likely to be wading in combat and I can see MA in that case. But in the average party size of 4 to 5, it rarely happens. But I don't really output any damage (cantrips are the only attacks I do).

 

[BigBadDM]

So cast mage armor then take a short rest and you back to full spell slots.

So basically it is a ritual for your group...

 

[Ashrym]

Well squeezing and now on either side they do get slowed a bit.

"You can move through a nonhostile creature’s space. In contrast, you can move through a hostile creature's space only if the creature is at least two sizes larger or smaller than you."

That's the specific rule that over-rides the general squeezing rule. If it weren't the case, squeezing through space also gives disadvantage on DEX saves like those bearings mentioned earlier.

 

[Yardiff]

So basically it is a ritual for your group...

And? That makes the idea bad in some way?

 

[Garthanos]

"You can move through a nonhostile creature’s space. In contrast, you can move through a hostile creature's space only if the creature is at least two sizes larger or smaller than you."

They are however not moving through your space... they are moving through a space too small and avoiding your space - but yes off topic

 

[BigBadDM]

And? That makes the idea bad in some way?

Doesn't make it a bad idea. But are you wasting your arcane recovery at the beginning of the day just for one slot? Most DMs I know roll for a random encounters during a short rest (same when I DM), but ymmv.