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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6616145" data-attributes="member: 6677017">A lot of the ones with little to no combat utility have great role-playing usefulness. Prestidigitation, thaumaturgy, druidcraft, and their elemental kin gust, mold earth, shape water, control flames (well maybe not so much that one) can be great fun. Mage hand is in the same category. You can use them all the time. I've had characters regularly use prestidigitation just to keep their clothes clean and dry. They add to the game on a regularly basis. Light gets use constantly in my games. Torches and lanterns require free hands and if no one started with light the PCs tend to get sick of that and at least one of them picks up light at the first opportunity. Dancing lights got used by the drow instead of light all the time. Our cleric used resistance some of the time, though he forgot to use it as often as he could have. It's a nice little spell to cast before busting into the room with the monsters.In addition the to the other three I mentioned, the only ones I haven't seen get a lot of use in my games (or know I would love to have and use myself) would be mending, message, and spare the dying. Mending and message are a little more situational, but I can still see them being effectively used more frequently than blade ward, true strike, or friends. Spare the dying is a hard one to place. No one has taken it in my groups. Since you can do the same thing with a healing kit, it's rather underwhelming (though the playtest version was a bit too good). It's actually most useful for a death domain cleric, because you can get 2 downed allies for the price of 1.Another note on blade ward and true strike--I've had players taken them but never had a player cast them.The worse cantrips from my perspective are friends, blade ward and true strike. They just aren't going to get used nearly enough to justify being an at-will spells. And friends is misnamed. Perhaps it was an editing error and it should have been called "friends".All of the other cantrips are either good or passable. The weaker ones are mending, message and spare the dying.So I really do think there is a problem with friends and his two underachieving buddies, because they aren't going to be used as often as a spell ought to be used to justify being at-will.</blockquote>

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