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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 6252408" data-attributes="member: 83996">42 damage is enough to take out about half the bestiary and its one of the area spells, so its damage is not meant to insta kill high level monsters, its meant to clear out other things like high level monsters armies of minions.If you want to insta kill a single monster you'd instead choose Hold Person if its humanoid (which allows the party to wail on it unimpeded with advantage), Hold Monster. If you got a Cleric you can cast Harm for 14d6 damage without a save if the damage is higher than its hp. Flesh to Stone is pretty nice since the save DCs allow for less than a 50% chance of not being permanently turned to stone. Flaming Sphere in a higher level slot is deadly. At 4th level it deals 4d6 damage per round to multiple targets. A few rounds of that and most creatures are toast, and while that is going on the caster is still slinging cantrips around and other daily instant damage spells.Flame Blade is one of the best spells in the game. It is low level so you can have many of them and you can cast it in a higher level slot and in addition to dealing nice damage you also get a bonus to hit so you are more accurate than Fighters. A 9th level Flame Blade can deal 10d6 fire damage per hit each round for up to 10 rounds and that's not including when you get extra actions to attack with it.Just face it they made the same mistakes as they did with 3.5E and previous. They even made it worse with the flexibility of spell casting so you can prepare spells like Flame Blade and then cast them using any slot from 2nd level and up and you decide at cast time, not memorization time. All they've done is made the problem worse. Utility spells no longer cut into combat, you prepare both and then only use the utility spell if you need it leaving all slots for combat.I'd rather play a 4.5E where they fix some of the problems and streamline the game, but instead they are trying to get me to buy into a 2.5E game. No thanks...</blockquote>

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