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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5968588" data-attributes="member: 78958">I actually like to spend my resources whenever I get a chance with my current Wizard. At lower levels, I couldn't handle more than maybe two encounters with spells anyway, so the other party members didn't even expect me to keep an ace up my sleeve. With slow levelling, I now have enough spell slots to always be able to do something useful with my magic. Which just means I now have the luxury to prepare some pure utility spells from time to time.In combat, I like to keep things short and to the point. Every round the opposition gets to take another turn is a round fraught with risk. So I usually try to either render them completely ineffective or just blow them to smithereens quickly (slight blasting focus here). Our group uses some houserules including a morale check for enemies, and quickly destroying lots of baddies in a flash of impressive magical energy has turned the tide more than once for this reason. I also specialize in taking out bosses as quickly as possible, who are often a grave danger to everybody else.In a word, I like to go nova sooner rather than later. It can actually save on party-wide resources in a big way: less healing spent by the Cleric, less arrows spent by the Ranger, less spells spent by me and the Sorceress (who is lower level than me and a player with little D&amp;D experience, so her actions tend to count for less). If I'm less useful in a later fight, at least the rest of the party is still able to pick up the slack because they didn't suffer too much damage in the first few encounters of the day.I must admit that this playstyle simply seemed more fitting for my character than the &quot;magical miser&quot; thing some people have going on: an impulsive, storm-themed Evoker.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5968588, member: 78958"] I actually like to spend my resources whenever I get a chance with my current Wizard. At lower levels, I couldn't handle more than maybe two encounters with spells anyway, so the other party members didn't even expect me to keep an ace up my sleeve. With slow levelling, I now have enough spell slots to always be able to do [I]something[/I] useful with my magic. Which just means I now have the luxury to prepare some pure utility spells from time to time. In combat, I like to keep things short and to the point. Every round the opposition gets to take another turn is a round fraught with risk. So I usually try to either render them completely ineffective or just blow them to smithereens quickly (slight blasting focus here). Our group uses some houserules including a morale check for enemies, and quickly destroying lots of baddies in a flash of impressive magical energy has turned the tide more than once for this reason. I also specialize in taking out bosses as quickly as possible, who are often a grave danger to everybody else. In a word, I like to go nova sooner rather than later. It can actually save on party-wide resources in a big way: less healing spent by the Cleric, less arrows spent by the Ranger, less spells spent by me and the Sorceress (who is lower level than me and a player with little D&D experience, so her actions tend to count for less). If I'm less useful in a later fight, at least the rest of the party is still able to pick up the slack because they didn't suffer too much damage in the first few encounters of the day. I must admit that this playstyle simply seemed more fitting for my character than the "magical miser" thing some people have going on: an impulsive, storm-themed Evoker. [/QUOTE]

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