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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5626522" data-attributes="member: 59248">Kinneus: Fountain of flame does a lot less damage, at least for a character that's optimized for it.  A Genasi blaster does 1d4+Int+Implement+Str damage -- 9.5 damage at first level, 13.5 at at 5th level with a +2 implement (or more with stuff like Gauntlets of blood), and it only goes up from there.  And that's on top of it upgrading your at will damage to 2d6+Int -- an amazing buff when you're best off playing single-target striker for a while.    Even a non-genasi starts out doing 7.5 damage with FS.I do think that EOT is, any way you slice it, a big nerf.  But it's not unlikely that Flaming Sphere is good enough that it's still the best Wizard first level spell -after- the nerf (and, yes, more controllery-but unarguably weaker).</blockquote>