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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6133956" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Quite true.  The two primary issues of Wizards potency are the above and expected Daily Spell deployment per combat and per day.  Lets say over the course of a year-long campaign, you fight maybe 100ish fights.  Lets say for rounds/day, the mean, median and mode are 8.3, 8, and 8 respectively.  Lets say for combats/per day, the mean, median and mode are 2.8, 3, and 3 respectively.  Lets say for both of these datasets, the standard deviation is well within half of the mean value.If those numbers hold strong throughout the course of an adventuring career, then a Wizard's "Batman Utility Belt" nature is going to be naturally progressing as he levels, as more and more of his spell load-out (that scales...albeit less so than in 3.x) is going to be able to be plotted toward Exploration and Social.  Obviously, At-Wills assist in this proliferation.So, with the numbers above (given the potency of Wizard spells as game-changers), if I were playing a Wizard, I would be fully comfortable with allocating only 4-5 spells slots toward "adventure combat"; allowing 4-5 for "Batman" at level 5.  I'd maybe go 2 (combat):4 (utility) in spells prepared.  Obviously, if you're in a combat-intensive dungeon, that may see a bump in line with the standard deviation.  So, by level 15, I'm generally looking at 10-11 daily spells slots allocated toward "Batmanitude" and sometimes only ~ 7ish (extraordinarily powerful utility spells).  I wouldn't need to go too terribly steeply beyond the 2 combat spells that I had prepared earlier as fights aren't appreciably longer or more frequent at the level.  But lets just say that I prepare near (slightly more combat spells now giving me even more combat versatility) the same ratio as level 5.  I go 6:10.  That is 10 swiss-army-knife spells for my utility belt.  Yup.  [video=youtube;1jgE-lrfZ3k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jgE-lrfZ3k[/video]</blockquote>

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