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<blockquote data-quote="xigbar" data-source="post: 5846348" data-attributes="member: 6673175"><p>Well, first of all, any serious comparison of a caster vs. a melee class goes step by step. At 1st level, A wizard can have Abrupt Jaunt. Most of mine do. So, to be fair, I don;t have many ways of keeping you more than 10ft. away, but, when I port a hop skip and a jump away, it doesn't matter. I then proceed to use whatever spell is most likely to shut you down. At the next few levels of spells, I'm still getting new abilities that a fighter has to get around, such as invisibility, and Alter Self/Polymorph forms with inherent advantages over my opponent. I'll start getting more large scale battle field control spell to slow your progress to getting to me. While your fight has to look past it's own class features to find ways to effect me, I simply see a higher AC. Once teleportation spells come in place, I'm guaranteed to get a chance to buff before hand. Contingency can be used to avoid AMF. I just use spells that don't target spell resistance, or summon something to fight for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xigbar, post: 5846348, member: 6673175"] Well, first of all, any serious comparison of a caster vs. a melee class goes step by step. At 1st level, A wizard can have Abrupt Jaunt. Most of mine do. So, to be fair, I don;t have many ways of keeping you more than 10ft. away, but, when I port a hop skip and a jump away, it doesn't matter. I then proceed to use whatever spell is most likely to shut you down. At the next few levels of spells, I'm still getting new abilities that a fighter has to get around, such as invisibility, and Alter Self/Polymorph forms with inherent advantages over my opponent. I'll start getting more large scale battle field control spell to slow your progress to getting to me. While your fight has to look past it's own class features to find ways to effect me, I simply see a higher AC. Once teleportation spells come in place, I'm guaranteed to get a chance to buff before hand. Contingency can be used to avoid AMF. I just use spells that don't target spell resistance, or summon something to fight for me. [/QUOTE]
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