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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6519188" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I do play wizards that way too, as much as I can (when I play PCs). You can indeed do it (with appropriate forethought), and it works. YMMV obviously, but "can" doesn't mean "must" and you are free to spend ki freely if you like. To me, a 33% boost in damage is negligible compared to the opportunity cost (a 50% chance at a whole free round of attacks for everybody when it's needed most), but you can play the game any way you find enjoyable. [shrug] Enjoy your magic elf game.I suspect the big lurking variable here is encounter style, content, and pacing. If the whole campaign were full of invisible Mind Flayer Arcanists paired with Intellect Devourer pets, and high-level drow wizards launching high-level spells at our poor 6th-level selves, I would spend ki freely too, because in that case, every fight is an important fight. On the other hand, if you just go on kobold.com and roll up a random encounter for 10th level characters, and then toss the resulting Hard encounter at my 6th-level party, that is almost certainly not going to be a fight I consider "important" or worth spending ki on. It's cheaper to spend time and terrain than ki and spell points.P.S. There's a guy I play with who has a PC of much higher level than everyone else due to conversion from AD&D. He's a dual-classed Wizard 9/Cleric 8, and he loves spending his 9th level spell slots to cast superpowered Chromatic Orb at the bad guys. Obviously he has fun doing it, but the tactician in me dies a little every time he does that...</blockquote>

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