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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pnewman" data-source="post: 8053244" data-attributes="member: 22036">At low levels the Sorcerer is better than the Wizard because a Draconic Ancestor Sorcerer gets +3 to AC all the time, to match that the Wizard has to cast Mage Armor every 8 hours.It's all about survival. When you're up against low level monsters with about a +4 to hit then (assuming Dex 14) an AC 12 Wizard will get hit 65% of the time while an AC 15 Sorcerer will get hit only 50% of the time. 0.65/0.5 = 1.3 so the Wizard will get hit 30% more often, and they just don't have the hit points to handle it.If a L1 Wizard casts Mage Armor every morning to get the AC 15 the Sorcerer always has they're burning a L1 slot, recovering it with Arcane Recovery during a short rest at noon, casting it again at 4 pm, thus having only one level one slot to use on anything else all day, and still have a poor AC when the monsters attack at 3 am.</blockquote>