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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5775775" data-attributes="member: 19675">For sane people?  The flexible one.For me, though, I think it still depends on the PC.Example: I have a PC who is one of my Mage-Brutes.  He a Sorc who wears Scale armor and swings a Maul.  Most of his spells are really what most would call "utility/non-Combat spells...because if he wants to use arcane attacks in combat, he's channeling spell slots into a lightning breath weapon or Arcane Strike....with one caveat...In this campaign, the DM is letting us learn metamagically altered spells as if they were completely new spells of the adjusted level instead of learning & burning feats*.  For example, while Fireball would be a 3rd level spell, a Still Fireball or Silent Fireball would be learned as a 4th level spell, and a Stilled, Silent Fireball would be learned as a 5th level spell.So of the PCs actual offensive spells, almost all have one thing in common: they are lightning spells.  (Some few are also Stilled.)  If an attack spell is available for him to choose that is not either already lightning based or can be made lightning based, he won't choose it because he is all about lightning.  That perforce means he is utterly useless as a spellcaster against something immune to lightning.* which, BTW, I think is a better way to go for a lot of casters.</blockquote>