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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1601488" data-attributes="member: 2785">At 9th level, empowered fireball is a better bang for your buck than cone of cold. Later, of course, that changes.I will echo what someone else said: 4th-level evocations are about controlling the battlefield. In that sense they are deadly when properly applied. Otiluke's & wall spells = divide & conquer. I have seen this used to great effect many times. There's nothing wrong with the 4th level evocations. Wizards who rely on boom spells and nothing else aren't very imaginative, and this means they aren't nearly as effective as they could be. Creative applications of wizardry are far more terrifying than a simple boom (solid fog + cloudkill, for instance). Don't get me wrong, though, booms do have their place. It's just sad when that's the first or only trick out of a wizard's bag time & again. They are capable of so much more.</blockquote>