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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9317236" data-attributes="member: 27957">So, putting aside theme and flavor for a minute, let's look at the mechanics.Mechanically it's not a great fit. Enchantment spells want a high Save DC, which means you really want to focus on your caster stat. Divination spells don't have many good combat buffs besides Foresight, so they don't really compliment the Fighter parts. There are a lot of good spells to use for a Fighter/Wizard character, but most of them aren't Enchantment and Divination. And with no particular class feature that rewards using those spell schools over others, you're just limiting yourself for no reason.If you're playing an edition where spell saves aren't caster dependent and you don't have to worry about Concentration, it might be more reasonable to play a multiclass gish who focused on Enchantment spells. In the context of 5e, though, it's not a good fit. Things look a little better if you switch to playing a straight Sword Bard or Bladesinger Wizard, instead of the multiclass build. A character like that would still be pretty gish-like but have better spellcasting to support the theme. Or if you want to go the other direction, and be mostly weapon focused with only a little enchanting going on, there's Arcane Trickster Rogue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 9317236, member: 27957"] So, putting aside theme and flavor for a minute, let's look at the mechanics. Mechanically it's not a great fit. Enchantment spells want a high Save DC, which means you really want to focus on your caster stat. Divination spells don't have many good combat buffs besides Foresight, so they don't really compliment the Fighter parts. There are a lot of good spells to use for a Fighter/Wizard character, but most of them aren't Enchantment and Divination. And with no particular class feature that [I]rewards[/I] using those spell schools over others, you're just limiting yourself for no reason. If you're playing an edition where spell saves aren't caster dependent and you don't have to worry about Concentration, it might be more reasonable to play a multiclass gish who focused on Enchantment spells. In the context of 5e, though, it's not a good fit. Things look a little better if you switch to playing a straight Sword Bard or Bladesinger Wizard, instead of the multiclass build. A character like that would still be pretty gish-like but have better spellcasting to support the theme. Or if you want to go the other direction, and be mostly weapon focused with only a little enchanting going on, there's Arcane Trickster Rogue. [/QUOTE]

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