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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2883589" data-attributes="member: 29014">Dex over Str for a Wizard all the way.  And Con over Dex by just as much of a margin.  As I think Monte mentioned in a Design Diary about AU, where the casters have d6 HD at least, Wizards hit dice is unplayably low all alone--they live or die by their Con.  An 8 Con Elf Wizard is going to be killed in one hit in every battle.  At first level, if he shoots himself with a Magic Missile, he has a 50% chance to knock himself out and a 25% chance to stagger himself.  A miniboss level 3 Wizard will automatically defeat him in a single round (barring Shield).  Any competent hit from a weapon will take him out of the fight.  At third level, he has 6 hit points, and he will still knock himself out with an average Magic Missile.  His new spell Scorching Ray will knock him out barring a major fluke, and slightly above average rolls will outright kill him down to -10 or below.  At fifth level, he has 9 hit points, almost as much as a 1st-level Fighter.  If he casts a fireball, average damage rounded up will stagger him on a *successful save*.  And this is an area of effect spell that will kill him as an afterthought.  The 3rd-level Wizard still knocks him out with an average Scorching Ray, and will continue to do so until level 8 (of course, a level 8 Wizard can kill him at ease with a Scorching Ray, just not a level 3 Wizard).</blockquote>