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<blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 7557486" data-attributes="member: 1288"><p>Obviously, yes, there's some variation. It's absolutely impossible to make all spells <em>perfectly</em> balanced against others of the same level. There are contextual matters, there are character who can better take advantage, there are completely immeasurable differences (such as trying to judge an offensive spell vs. a utility spell), and there are flat-out mistakes.</p><p></p><p>But, and this is the point I was trying to make...</p><p></p><p>The differences between spells of the same level are matters of degree, they are mostly not deliberate, they are mostly insignificant except for the most extreme optimization, and (most importantly), <em>they are not factors in class balance as assumed by the game itself</em>.</p><p></p><p>The developers didn't give clerics spell X but wizards spell Y as part of any effort to make one class more or less powerful than the other. They did it because spell X felt more appropriate--thematically, flavor-wise, or traditionally--for a cleric, and spell Y for a wizard. If you therefore gave the wizard access to spell X instead of Y, you will not have changed the class balance in any meaningful sense. And in fact, if you decided to play a wizard who used the cleric spell list instead of the wizard spell list in its entirety, the class would play very differently, but it wouldn't inherently be more or less powerful or "unbalanced."</p><p></p><p><em>That's</em> what I was getting at.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mouseferatu, post: 7557486, member: 1288"] Obviously, yes, there's some variation. It's absolutely impossible to make all spells [I]perfectly[/I] balanced against others of the same level. There are contextual matters, there are character who can better take advantage, there are completely immeasurable differences (such as trying to judge an offensive spell vs. a utility spell), and there are flat-out mistakes. But, and this is the point I was trying to make... The differences between spells of the same level are matters of degree, they are mostly not deliberate, they are mostly insignificant except for the most extreme optimization, and (most importantly), [I]they are not factors in class balance as assumed by the game itself[/I]. The developers didn't give clerics spell X but wizards spell Y as part of any effort to make one class more or less powerful than the other. They did it because spell X felt more appropriate--thematically, flavor-wise, or traditionally--for a cleric, and spell Y for a wizard. If you therefore gave the wizard access to spell X instead of Y, you will not have changed the class balance in any meaningful sense. And in fact, if you decided to play a wizard who used the cleric spell list instead of the wizard spell list in its entirety, the class would play very differently, but it wouldn't inherently be more or less powerful or "unbalanced." [I]That's[/I] what I was getting at. [/QUOTE]
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