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Your rationale for the Rogue being effect is being able to play pretend-Wizard, and the Wizard itself can play pretend-Wizard(ie, use of scrolls and wands) far better than the Rogue can. And again, Rogue doing damage was never in question, I just never brought it up because damage is the worst...

Knock is one way for a Wizard to bypass a locked door. Invisible flying Wizards are incredibly difficult to find. And Charming someone can be as beneficial as Diplomacy/Bluff, especially if you only need to have them won over for a minute or two(like to, say, open a locked door from the other...

The difference is Wizard playing pretend-Rogue is better and more versatile than the actual Rogue.

Which doesn't detract at all from the fact that it's still an option in the game and is fair to bring into discussions about the game.

Ah, so the Rogue beats out the Wizard by playing a pretend-Wizard. Welp, you sure showed me. So...longer than a minute then. Considering by your admission, it's difficult for people who aren't Wizards or playing pretend-Wizard to get past, pretty decent challenge apparently. But really...

Mind explaining how a Rogue gets through a solid brick wall in less than 1 minute?

1. Sorcerers get less known spells than Wizards. 2. Hence why you only leave some spell slots open(I'd probably leave about 1/4th of my spell slots open at most). 3. Which is fine, but leaving some open and then taking 1 minute to fill it in later when you need it ensures you'll have it.

Again, if a Wizard dies because the spell slots he did fill in weren't enough to last one encounter, then he already failed and deserved to die for being dumb.

If the Rogue can't get past a solid brick wall in 1 minute and 6 seconds, he's already doing it slower than the Wizard(1 minute to prepare the spell, 6 seconds to cast it) And leaving spell slots open is something smart Wizard players do(because people who don't know the rules in-depth...

The problem with feat chains is that it takes too many feats to get benefits that usually aren't worth it in the first place for how long it takes and how many feats you need to take to get it. For example, a grapple-based Fighter can indeed be very good at grappling...once he has the right...

The Wizard can leave spell slots open to prepare later, and at level 5 he can lower the mid-day preparation time to 1 minute, so he can still be ready for a locked door should he need to be at a moment's notice.

As far as +x magic items go, one idea I had for D&DNext was making the +x not effect the attack/damage values at all and only go up to +3(by default). The +x would instead be the magic item's "rank" for lack of a better term atm. Each rank the magic item was at would give it more and better...

As far as UMD, it just needs to be reinstated as a Rouge/Bard/tricksterish class only thing.

For example, one reason I see all the time elsewhere to justify why Wizards should be better than Fighters is "Well of course they are, Wizards bend time and space and Fighters just swing a sharp piece of metal", which is disingenuous. If you're discussing reality-bending levels of magic on the...

First suggestion-Kill feat chains. Tie them up, lock them in a safe, throw them down to the bottom of the Marianna Trench, and never speak of them again. There is no reason my grapple-based Fighter needs about 8-9 levels worth of feats to finally reach being passable at grappling something...

We've been trying, but everytime a flaw with Pathfinder is brought up it just turns into a shouting match of people telling us we're wrong or telling us to go play a different game if we think PF has a problem, neither of which are very helpful.

I don't think the complaint is that magic is magical. The complaint is that magic is the end-all-be-all option for doing anything because doing it any other way is vastly inferior.

Considering 90% of enemies can't attack from 30 squares away either, it's kind of a moot point.

?? Most Warlock spells have at least a range of 10, which is only 5 less than a crossbow(even then they have a number of close blast powers), which is still pretty big unless your fighting on maps about a hundred or so squares across(in which case even Superior Crossbow users are screwed)...

4e actually had really good Crossbows that didn't eventually get obsoleted into uselessness though, especially the Superior Crossbow.