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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 7037866" data-source="post: 9385626">No, it isn't. Every time you level up, you can exchange a known spell for a new known spell. Not permanent, certainly, but I'll agree much more limited than being able to swap out every spell you have prepared for a different spell, selected from your ENTIRE spell list. (Frankly, I've always thought that was a bit overboard... but that's a different topic.)Yes, a few is greater than zero... nothing new there.But, let's agree not to count spells, since over half the classes get spells? I don't consider spell selection much of a choice, personally. I don't need a choice every level to feel like a class as sufficient decision points for me to enjoy it. Again, as I've said upthread, the other class chassis have plently of decision points.Boring has nothing to do with it. Those dozen invocations depend on the character concept, but once that has been determined, the invocation choices are pratically pre-determined as well, IME.No, they are complaining about a serious design issue.(Bolded) Why, LOL!?!From levels 2-10 you have 2 SPELLS you can cast during an encounter. Otherwise, you're forced to resort to spamming cantrips. That is a serious pinch unless your groups get in short rests after every encounter? If you play with the oft-used 2 short rest limit per long rest, that is 6 spells for an entire adventuring day.Other full-casters get that by 3rd level, and by 10th level: 15 spells, 2.5 times what a warlock has.If a battle goes for more than 3-4 rounds, which IME happens often enough--Warlock feel quite limited by comparison. At least other spellcasters have the option to cast more spells in such cases.In our current game one of the PCs is a warlock, and with 2 spells (95% of the time hex and then the other slot is 50% cure wounds). Once that first spell slot is used, the player feels like they have to hoard that valuable second slot in case the cure is needed. It is a pinch felt every session.Which is over 2/3's of the games levels...  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> As far as choices made for other classes, I don't have the time (or much of the inclination) to give you a class-by-class breakdown for my personal feelings on them, but if I have time this weekend perhaps I will.A final note: like many others, in many ways warlocks feel more like half-casters even though they are "full-casters". But even compared to half-casters, warlocks have fewer spell slots by 7th level... Warlock are sort of a wierd 2/3 or 3/4 caster class.</blockquote>

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