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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8704925" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yes, well. That's how I feel about large portions of 5e's rules, so this is sort of par for the course for me.But yeah, sword burst is pretty clearly much better than thunderclap. And if we compare it to at least my proposed version of stormwalk, sword burst has:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a much better damage type (force vs lightning) in terms of resistances, though force doesn't interact with Sorcerer features, a minor point in stormwalk's favor</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a better save, if you go with Con for stormwalk</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">slightly inferior starting damage (1d6 vs 1d6+2), but superior from level 5 up (2d6>1d6+3 about two thirds of the time) and clearly superior from 11 up (3d6>1d6+5 more than three quarters of the time.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">no riders, and thus comparatively weaker than stormwalk</li> </ul>You could correct this by having the cantrip start with no scaling at all, and only gain +proficiency at level 11, or by dropping it to d4 (since 1d4+2 is only very, very slightly better than 1d6, and even 1d4+4 is clearly inferior to 2d6, as the maximum of the former is only one more than the average of the latter.) If you do go for the d4, at that point the ONLY selling point for stormwalk is the rider, in all other ways it sucks. If you stick with d6, it starts out as a slightly stronger damage option for a very bad tactical choice (seriously, low-level casters are WAY squishy), but fairly quickly becomes inferior damage even compared to other AoE cantrips.</blockquote>

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