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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RCanine" data-source="post: 6859785" data-attributes="member: 85040">I was interested in trying some oddball race/class combos, and started working on a guide for spellcasters interested in suboptimal casting stats. What I discovered is that there are a TON of spells that require neither a saving throw nor attack modifier. I'm categorizing spells alphabetically, and I've got almost 100 entries and I'm not even to "F" yet.Now, there are a lot of asterisks to this: almost none of these spells do damage, and many of them enable your allies. More often than not, AL adventures are about how many HP you can burn through before you die or run out of (IRL) time. But there are still a lot of useful things in that list.Remember that +1 to hit/save DC increases your hit chance to 5% higher than it was; mathematically, this means that against an AC 14 creature, you'll hit 50% of the time instead of 55% of the time -- a +3 ability modifier would give you +10% hit rate. The value of this changes significantly based on what you face; an 18 AC monster will be 30% -> 35% or +16% hit rate while an AC 10 creature is 70% -> 75% or only +7% hit rate. This change in hit rate becomes less noticeable the better your chances, so if you have other ways to improve your hit rate (darkness shenanigans, archery fighting style, reckless attack) you'll mitigate this a bit.To think about it another way, you have a 5% chance per attack that your 14 stat relative to a 16 stat will matter—95% of the time, you would have achieved exactly the same outcome regardless of +2 or +3.Similarly, remember that there's an opportunity cost to taking a 16 stat. If, for example, taking a 14 in your spellcasting stat lets you get a 16 in Dexterity, that means the 5% chance of spellcasts mattering is exchanged for 5% chance of dodging a fireball, balancing on a tightrope or beating a monster in initiative that you otherwise wouldn't.In the end, you're probably not going to notice a +1 here or there, especially if the value you get in exchange is quite high. It really depends on what's important to you in how you play. But if the only thing you care about is how much damage you do in a white-room simulation, then a 16-stat at level 1 will always be superior.</blockquote>

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