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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4364763" data-attributes="member: 11821">In my experience... no, not at all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  A lot of that is in templates.  If a Magister or Greenbond above 10th level doesn't look nearly godlike, he's not using his templates well.  For 30 gp, you can add the Electric template to a spell (Foe needs to make a Fort save in addition to whatever damage he gets; failure means he's stunned for 1 or more rounds).  Acid?  Auto-stun 1 round per 20 points of damage if you add the template to an acid spell.  Runic?  Force a save using Intelligence at the cost of extra casting time.  (For big, beefy, high-level characters, this can amount to a penalty of -10 or more to their saves.)So you're doing tons of damage and getting the cool side-effects.Additionally, if a caster picks up Brandish Magical Might, they can eat right through a foe's spell resistance - many times per day.Let's add in Quicken Spell at the right level.  Sure, it costs 2 spell slots of whatever level, but you can do it 3 times per day and pick the spells you want to quicken at the time you cast them.There are still several spells that are effectively save-or-die, as well.  Vitrification is a 6th-level Complex spell.  It turns you to easily-shattered glass, not stone.  The various Resilient Spheres effectively remove a threat from the field for the duration of a battle.I stand by my original conclusions from running the game for a few years.  Magic is crazy powerful in AE. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-O</blockquote>

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