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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4790410" data-attributes="member: 8158">There are a number of additional factors to focus on.First, the sorcerer's damage bonus is a given. The warlock's is not. Sounds easy enough to make sure the target you want to attack is the nearest and then spend a minor action to curse it, but in practice it isn't a sure thing. Second, the eldritch blast is pretty much rubbish. It's inferior to the basic attack that a ranger takes completely for granted and likely never uses. The sorcerer has acid orb, which is virtually identical, except it's not mandatory and if you take the feat that allows the sorcerer to turn ranged attacks into melee attacks, it's now actually a viable option because it can be used for oppies. Third, to portray the sorcerer's at-wills as all doing a d8 damage to a target is to overlook its best attacks. Chaos Bolt is 1d10+Cha, plus 1d6+Cha to anyone it chains to. For dragon sorcerers, there's the at-will close attack. The sorcerer is set up for at-will multiple-target damage, and his damage adder (for Dex or Str) will add to each hit. IMO, it's pretty clear-cut that you take your build's special at-will, and then you tack on whatever other at-will you want to play around with. That's a strak contrast as to having two powers shackled to your wrists.As I stated previously, it's pretty much a given that the sorcerer spends the feat to get leather armor. The sorcerer has some extra ability that grants a conditional AC boost of +1, whereas the warlock has shadow walk, which is effectively +2, and more reliable than the various sorcerer AC boosts. The warlock comes out a ahead, but AC remains a weak point for both classes. To borrow a line from the 3e DMG, becoming worse at something your archetype is already weak at isn't a good trade-off for jacking up your archetype's strengths.</blockquote>

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