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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4512825" data-attributes="member: 2011">Your data is misleading.Look at first level through fourth level. Take out the Cantrips (which are rarely used in combat) and it's 0% of the spells used are combat. Including the cantrips is extremely misleading.5th level, 1 out of 6 spells available is non-damaging. But with 5 encounters of 6 rounds each, that's either 1 spell in 30 cast that is non-damaging or 5 spells (if all used) in 30 cast. A lower percentage if combat averages more rounds per encounter.It's not until 16th level that a second Encounter utility power is available (most Paragon encounter spells are attack). That's a lot of levels of 1 to 5 max Encounter Utility spells (of one spell type per day) being cast per day. 4 levels of none of them and 11 levels of one of them. Max.There is a major difference between which spells are on the list and how often they can be cast. With so few Encounter Utility spells (2 max per day), it really means that an extremely high percentage of spells cast per day will be damaging ones, even if the Wizard takes every possible Utility spell and casts it as often as possible.This can be offset a small amount with magic items (maybe 3 or 4 total cast per day at heroic level), but even there a lot of abilities are ones designed to improve a damaging power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 4512825, member: 2011"] Your data is misleading. Look at first level through fourth level. Take out the Cantrips (which are rarely used in combat) and it's 0% of the spells used are combat. Including the cantrips is extremely misleading. 5th level, 1 out of 6 spells available is non-damaging. But with 5 encounters of 6 rounds each, that's either 1 spell in 30 cast that is non-damaging or 5 spells (if all used) in 30 cast. A lower percentage if combat averages more rounds per encounter. It's not until 16th level that a second Encounter utility power is available (most Paragon encounter spells are attack). That's a lot of levels of 1 to 5 max Encounter Utility spells (of one spell type per day) being cast per day. 4 levels of none of them and 11 levels of one of them. Max. There is a major difference between which spells are on the list and how often they can be cast. With so few Encounter Utility spells (2 max per day), it really means that an extremely high percentage of spells cast per day will be damaging ones, even if the Wizard takes every possible Utility spell and casts it as often as possible. This can be offset a small amount with magic items (maybe 3 or 4 total cast per day at heroic level), but even there a lot of abilities are ones designed to improve a damaging power. [/QUOTE]

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