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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 9620515" data-attributes="member: 6777737">I think the problem people are having is that if &quot;situational&quot; automatically caps the rating at C tier, then well over 90% of the spells in the game are automatically C tier or worse, and that's very optimistic. The number of B, A or potential higher tier spells is effectively zero. In that case, the tier rating is essentially useless.The thing about Fireball is that while it has a limited use -- it sets things on fire and little else -- it's the first spell of the lowest level where the damage quantity of an AoE damage spell is actually worth it. And while there are higher level spells with potentially more favorable geometries, none of them actually deal significantly more damage when you take higher slots into account. I think it's very worthwhile to have one good AoE spell, and I've had more than once campaign where Fireball was literally the only multi-target damage spell I ever took. Yes, there's often something better than a damage spell, but Fireball is good enough to cover essentially all the cases where an AoE damage spell is required.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 9620515, member: 6777737"] I think the problem people are having is that if "situational" automatically caps the rating at C tier, then well over 90% of the spells in the game are automatically C tier or worse, and that's [I]very optimistic[/I]. The number of B, A or potential higher tier spells is effectively zero. In that case, the tier rating is essentially useless. The thing about Fireball is that while it has a limited use -- it sets things on fire and little else -- it's the first spell of the lowest level where the damage quantity of an AoE damage spell is actually worth it. And while there are higher level spells with potentially more favorable geometries, none of them actually deal significantly more damage when you take higher slots into account. I think it's very worthwhile to have one good AoE spell, and I've had more than once campaign where Fireball was literally the only multi-target damage spell I ever took. Yes, there's often something better than a damage spell, but Fireball is good enough to cover essentially all the cases where an AoE damage spell is required. [/QUOTE]

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