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The thing is that there aren't that many extra decisions unless you're jumping in at high level. The Weapon Mastery procs, for example, are just things that happen. The main extra decisions I see come in at the rogue level 5 alternate uses of sneak attack dice and the barbarian and fighter level...

And I repeat my previous answer. How many nerfs should we apply to the wizard to bring their exploration abilities down to that of other classes. People don't become scholars to be cool. The wizard is effective but requires a little more study. Funny that a scholar should reward a little study.

Does the wizard need to be better than the fighter in a whole pillar of the game? Because it is better at exploration. Even under 2024 rules. WotC have made the decision that classes should be balanced across all three pillars, not in any one individual pillar. And as the wizard is better at...

Meanwhile the wizard gets rituals. And Find Familiar doesn't take a slot (and is wizard exclusive (until a warlock poaches it)) and is IME substantially better still. A flying scout whose eyes you can see through, and that has darkvision and advantage on perception checks is really useful. The...

I think you meant to write that evokers were a bit better at blasting than sorcerers before, as well as being better at literally everything else than pre-Tasha's sorcerers. The ability to fireball your party and not have them take damage was huge and something no sorcerer could match...

I use ArcKnight a lot but not because it's pricy. I DM one of my groups at a pub and can fit an entire folder full of ArcKnight standees in my backpack.

Crawford was talking in the videos about 70% or even 90% scores. I would be very surprised if that was 90% 5s

One question about power levels is at which tier? I'm going to suggest the following things are all true: At tier 1 the Sorcerer is the weakest class in the game; they just don't have the spell slots to do that much that often. (The wizard is way stronger at tier 1 because of their abilities...

Crawford didn't talk about averages or 5s, he talked about percentage who rated it positively. I'm guessing that positive meant 4 or 5 and they didn't much care which. This is all reading tealeaves. Or you took the position that a bad plan executed well is better than a good plan executed...

This is no longer clear. It was certainly true for 2014 sorcerers with two spells per spell level and no ritual ability at all. For 2024 sorcerers with three spells per level plus two per spell level from their subclass (and all casters being ritualists) it might be a lot more practical...

That's because they took a half-assed approach and made it a generic half-caster. If they'd e.g. retained pact magic but given you a minute long ritual you could use proficiency times per day to recover a pact slot it would have done way better. A big part of the point of the warlock is being...

Most people using GWM on the other hand use it because on a lot of builds it is genuinely good. GWM, by increasing the damage per attack, multiplies the effect of any accuracy buff the character has. On a stock fighter, for example, GWM is mid. So don't take it. On a barbarian you get advantage...

Or you get Alarm when you want to surveil an area without being there. Like looking for a gang of thieves. Or various other purposes. Then to check if it's a false alarm you send your familiar to check. If you're not doing things like this no wonder you have problems seeing the worth of a...

That's because they'd still have some left over... And this is why I propose wizard as a subclass of sorcerer. The books and rituals subclass. What makes the class is having the best spell list in the game; I don't think many doubt that a level 9+ wizard is under 2014 rules the strongest class...

The wizard doesn't need "all the ritual spells". If they are using standard loadouts, as you suggest, then that means that they have a number of spells in their book that they don't have space to prep. Which you fill with rituals. And like anything there are diminishing returns with the first...

Didn't getting aged by a year force a system shock survival roll?

It's basically what they are calling it. 5e Revised. I think all the changes that made it through playtesting are good ones and the classes are better versions of the 5e base classes with the arguable exception of the smite spamming paladin (especially the spear and shield PAM variant) It's...

My only disagreement here is how many of them aren't sorcerers but warlocks with Jean being a GOOlock (and The Phoenix Force a GOO) and Cyclops being an Eldritch Blast spammer. Both of them with some At Will stuff that goes way beyond a cantrip and Pact Magic to go above and beyond their high...

There was no mistake. The sorcerer was deliberately added to 3.0 to justify the wizard getting so many spells in the PHB. However 4e and 5e, in part thanks to subclasses being baked in and not being weighed down by legacy, have managed to turn the sorcerer into far the more interesting and...

Twin either needed to die or the other metamagic needed huge buffs. It was way too strong - which was fine on an otherwise weak class that did almost everything worse than the wizard. But the new version is otherwise much better.