How does one beef up damage dealt by 2nd lvl Wizard?

[Neonchameleon]

There are some edge cases where Twin Strike can be edged out, but they're pretty rare. The main competition are really things like Throw & Stab, and that's more a matter of tactics and build synergy, you still want TS to fall back on.

For the record if it's just damage output you're interested in, Chaos Bolt (from Chaos Sorcerors)* and Hand of Radiance (from Invokers)** both often beat out Twin Strike. They just aren't as focussed.

* An average of two targets and using Sorceror statics. In PHB 2
** Three targets... In Divine Powerz

 

[DracoSuave]

The one flaw with CoD really is that there's about zip you can do to buff it.

Using PHB1 only, sure.

Using other sources? Things open up greatly.

 

[Vael]

How do you buff CoD? It's not eligible for Enlarge Spell, and I'm not sure what's good for that power. Cloud of Daggers has kinda fallen by the wayside with all the other Wizard at-wills, I'd be interested to see if it can be brought back.

 

[Labon]

Yes, sorcerers in PHBII (if you can talk your DM into it) sounds like what you are looking for.

I just wanted to follow up with everyone. Thanks once again for all the advice. We finally picked up PH2 and sorcerers are what we were looking for...in the future. We decided with everyone's advice (on here) to stick with our Wizard.

We're looking forward however to using PH2 (and I'm anxious to start a sorcerer when we get a chance).

(We only play about once every 2 months - at most once a month, so it takes us a while to progress and even longer to get our acts together!).