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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6804188" data-attributes="member: 5834">There are no "supposed to cast" spells. There are only spells that strongly flavor a class and are optimal for that class. We have paladin smites turned into spells. We have ranger spells like hunter's mark. There are plenty of spells that are optimal for class, but aren't required to achieve victory in 5E. 5E is very forgiving of suboptimal choices. You can choose a spell other than bless or eldritch blast and still be an effective character. Making something a class feature would remove the modularity of the 5E system. 5E with multiclassing and feats is a very modular system that allows a lot of sharing of class abilities. You can build almost anything and be effective. It doesn't mean you'll be optimal, but you can be effective enough that no one will much care. I don't believe bless is OP. I believe Sharpshooter and Great Weapon Master are outliers in the power scale. That has more to do with Bounded Accuracy at higher levels. I think bless is merely a great spell for a cleric to cast, an optimal spell. It's not particularly fun. I don't even cast it all the time as a cleric given 5E isn't very hard. Sometimes I'd rather have up a spiritual guardians and wail away with a weapon or blast with sacred flame. 5E doesn't require super optimal play. In fact, I think playing the min-max style in 5E is counterproductive to enjoying the game. 5E isn't built for a min-max play-style. You can make encounters tough and challenging, while still allowing players that don't min-max to be effective meaning they don't have to cast "supposed to use" spells.</blockquote>

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