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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WalterKovacs" data-source="post: 5544685" data-attributes="member: 63763">All mages get two schools, and most schools have at least 2 options for at-wills. Now, if they get the level 10 benefit for pyromancy, they'll want scorching burst in order to get the most benefit (since it is the only fire burst at-will power the wizard gets), but by then, it will have mutlipe advantages (extra damage, ignores resistance, and creates a zone) to make it better than normal. They lose out on sliding the targets as well, but get all the other fire based benefits as a "trade". If they weren't getting those benefits, they probably wouldn't have taken the power  because they weren't being "forced" to. There are some powers that reference a class feature (which is pretty much what powers with the fire keyword are ... they are the pyromancer's equivalent to warlock powers that get better based on certain pacts) which may not be better than the generic power. Since at level 4 you get a second school, you can always use an at-will that works with the other school instead.  Chilling Cloud didn't stop them from making Freezing Burst, so never say never. There is a chance they may power up scorching burst when they do the wizard's Class Compendium, or when the half-year rules update hits ... and if they keep making more support for wizards, they may end up covering that ground again. Now, they'd have to probably redue the damage to d4's or ability modifier damage if they gave it any other effects ... unless they were just going to flat out replace/errata scorching burst.</blockquote>

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