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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mengu" data-source="post: 4733350" data-attributes="member: 65726">The Sorcerer's schtick seems to be hitting multiple targets with pseudo striker-like damage, so it's supposed to be a hybrid striker/controller. I get that out of PHB2 (Burning Spray, Chaos Bolt, etc). But looking at this power which adds a potentially damaging control effect to an at-will power, I can't help but think wizards with scorching burst are going to go home crying, looking at the damage this thing can do. But wait, there is more, it creates a zone even if you miss everything in it, so your 3x3 damaging control effect is still in play, essentially pinning any minions to the zone, and still doing damage to non-minions that get out of the zone. To add insult to injury, radiant is a superior damage type, compared to fire from scorchig burst because of all the vulnerable undead. I know a few wizards who wouldn't mind having this kind of control as an encounter power. All this time, I thought scorching burst was one of the better at-will's for simultaneously clearing out minions and doing a bit of damage to non-minions. Did they miss the mark that far when they designed scorching burst? Or in Arcane Power are we going to see wizard at-wills that are more even effective than Blazing Starfall, essentially making scorching burst obsolete?</blockquote>