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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6545787" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I wasn't meaning to suggest that Warlocks get nothing at all. Just that if we look purely at their spellcasting abilities, Warlocks are pretty much straight-up inferior. You are also neglecting the various school benefits of being a Wizard, if we're going to start tabulating everything a class gets, plus Arcane Recovery which is also short-rest based (albeit only once per day). The fact that Warlocks get the extra stuff makes up for their severely reduced breadth and flexibility. They're the "3e Fighters" of the 5e caster world, locked into specific options. (Fortunately they are not as weak as 3e Fighters were!)I didn't mean to suggest they didn't, hence why I mentioned that Warlocks never get a second 6th or 7th level slot. They still get Mystic Arcana, which means that at the very very highest levels (spell levels 8 and 9) they have identical power (but, again, not breadth) to a Wizard. For spell levels 6 and 7, the Wizard has twice as many spell slots, and probably twice as many spells known. For spell levels 5 an below, the Warlock has higher potency and potentially higher volume (with at least 4 rests per day), but lower versatility and breadth.And this is pretty much exactly what I meant when I mentioned the "over-arching quest to throw off the pact." A great RP opportunity, and one that allows a struggle between good person, bad powers.</blockquote>