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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawke" data-source="post: 4642451" data-attributes="member: 61721">Forked from: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showpost.php?postid=4642201" target="_blank"> Preview: The Sorcerer </a>This is an excellent point and one of my biggest misunderstandings about the direction they plan to take 4E. I would guess that with an Elemental Power Source confirmed, elemental powers by classes would be much rarer. It seems so easy for a wizard to do all sorts of types of elemental damage... What does that leave for the Elemental power source? If they do it similar to, say, an Avatar:TLA style then different classes will be hooked to a single source (much like the genasi, i'd guess). But this seems to be inferior to a Wizard who can do a fire spell followed by an ice spell or a dragonblood sorcerer spitting some fire spell and then throwing some icy shards at people next route. I would've imagined the non-elemental power sources would've been kept to a minimum with maybe even an arcane keyword to indicate the eldritch energy imbued. Certain paths might take them down an elemental marriage between magic and the element of their choice, but I wouldn't have expected so much. This all would be moot, though, if Elemental wasn't a power source. It'd make sense the wizard would be doing all the stuff he is, but I am just curious how it all fits in. Did wizards back themselves into a corner with the Elemental power source?</blockquote>