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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NADRIGOL" data-source="post: 6856575" data-attributes="member: 6803822">Really liked this post... It's something I've been thinking about a lot as I write my Bladesinger guide. Here are a couple thoughts I had reading it.Your ratings gleam most of their weighting from a "how many spells can I prepare" and "what will I prepare most often" frame of mind. I think this is the most relevant based on the Wizard playstyle, but I can see how a "How many spells are in my spellbook", "How many spells can I copy from scroll drops etc..." frame of mind could also be valuable (and I would put forward that this is how the guides spells are currently rated). Along the previous points implications... I think a problem encountered rating spells is that a lot of the currently sky blue spells are at least slightly situational. Therefore there are arguments to be made that all ~40 of them would spend equal time on your prepared list based on hunches regarding the upcoming adventure. I think where these two frames of mind can be reconciled is by giving out a few more gold ratings to the spells that always make the list... but the sky blue ratings are harder to judge... because of my next point.As recently discussed on this thread, ratings fluctuate depending on the tradition, build, and playstyle of the particular Wizard (which is a class with many possibilities). Your definition of ratings for spells, being very "prepared list" dependent, is therefore also very build dependent. Therefore I think that while certain aspects of your rating system could probably be incorporated into this guide, I think the current system is very appropriate for a "general guide to wizardry". All that being said, I think I'm going to borrow some of your rating ideas for the Bladesinger guide I'm writing. I think it will work well since, to my previous point, I'm writing a build specific guide. I'm in the middle of my multiclassing section, and to this guide's author's credit... rating multiclass spells is a horrific undertaking. It requires a lot of study, and reading of other guides, and outside-the-box (pure class X is the box!) thinking. In my current version I'm only bothering to point out spells that have potential to synergize well with the build, not even considering rating the whole spell list. Perhaps a middle ground will be to point out said spells, and rate them in the context of that particular multiclass build considering the existing Wizard spell ratings (Because who cares about the red-blue spells anyways).</blockquote>

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