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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5913681" data-attributes="member: 9037">I spent the day with my son and a friend of his and we discussed a lot of this. They talked about a lot of builds that have nothing to do with wizards that win every encounter. I wish I could remember them but  my brain is to tired. I will ask and post them later.I love magic users they are my idea of fantasy characters. I play them not for the power but because I love the idea of magic. I don't understand why with all the options the game has to offer you would only pick certain spells for every caster you play. That to be is boring and I have to be honest I have come to hate the words sub optimal and system mastery with a passion. There is more to the game then just be uber powerful in combat.I have played powerful blaster style casters but I have also played more support style casters. My favorite character ever was my elf sorceresses in my first 3.0 game. Her major damage spell was magic missile. The rest of her spells were more support style for the party buffs, slow a bunch of divination type spells like clairaudience/clairvoyance,  things to make life easier for the party like phantom steed. invisibility. In the game I was the main person who solved the mysteries and I was the face of the party. I had a blast I never felt that just because I could not do the damage others could that I was not contributing. My current wizard is not a combat monster either. I chose to max out her knowledge skills, diplomacy and sense motive. I have far more utility spells than combat spells. When we started we had a sorcerer who waned to be the blaster so I designed my wizard differently much more the wise sage than the I level armies. Since the sorcerer is gone I have added some more combat spells. I did this character because I liked the idea of being the walking google. I have playing so long that the idea of playing a class with the same build every single times is just unappealing to me.</blockquote>

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