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TwoSix
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While I appreciate where people are coming from, I have no truck with complaints about sorcerers. (NO TRUCK!) Sorcerers are awesome, metamagic is super fun, and I like the challenge of picking the best spell list I possibly can. Divine soul sorcerers and shadow sorcerers are also both new, amazing subclasses.
MechaTarrasque
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I am pretty sure the point of the sorcerer is primarily to complain about wizards*, but otherwise I think you have a good grasp of the classes.
* This is why they are never going to make a revised sorcerer, because the revised sorcerer might be closer to being a wizard**, and then there would be less to complain about, and that would take away fun from the sorcerer. It is too late to make a worse revised sorcerer, because no one would use it.
** No matter what anyone tells you, it wasn't warlords, come and get it, or anything like that that was the doom of 4e, it was because the sorcerer didn't have the same role as the wizard, and when anyone complained about the wizard on behalf of sorcerers all they would get is "well of course, the wizard is a controller and the sorcerer is a striker, why are you comparing them?" It was pretty obvious from the playtests that WotC thought this was a good thing (poor fools) and wanted to bring it to 5e too.
* This is why they are never going to make a revised sorcerer, because the revised sorcerer might be closer to being a wizard**, and then there would be less to complain about, and that would take away fun from the sorcerer. It is too late to make a worse revised sorcerer, because no one would use it.
** No matter what anyone tells you, it wasn't warlords, come and get it, or anything like that that was the doom of 4e, it was because the sorcerer didn't have the same role as the wizard, and when anyone complained about the wizard on behalf of sorcerers all they would get is "well of course, the wizard is a controller and the sorcerer is a striker, why are you comparing them?" It was pretty obvious from the playtests that WotC thought this was a good thing (poor fools) and wanted to bring it to 5e too.
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Ed Laprade
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Voted Bard. I very, very rarely play Wizards because they're too squishy (but not nearly as much as the early ones), and I like to have a decent melee weapon right out of the gate. (Although rapier all the time can get annoying.)
I also play Clerics, but mostly for the Heals!
I also play Clerics, but mostly for the Heals!
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All the spellcasting classes have been great in my games. I did get to play Percival de Rolo as a Pact of the Tome GOO warlock, and that went really well. Eldritch Blast, Firebolt, Ray of Frost, and shocking grasp as options from his gun (re-skinned magic wand) covered all the blasty damage I needed.
EDIT: I am surprised that bard is so low. In my Adventurer's League game back in the spring we had 3 bards.
EDIT: I am surprised that bard is so low. In my Adventurer's League game back in the spring we had 3 bards.
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TwoSix
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Satyrn
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It's not that I forgot. I never even got the memo.
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pdegan2814
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Voted Warlock, I like the simpler spell slot maintenance, I like the extra stuff you can pick up via Invocations, and I really like the flavor of the whole Pact/Patron thing. My go-to is usually an Archfey Tomelock(because I'm a HUGE Harry Dresden fan), but I'm currently playing a Pact Of The Raven Queen Warlock from the UA and it's very fun 
I went with warlock, since that's my usual go-to class. But I'm actually kinda burned out on the current incarnation - too much eldritch blasting, not enough other things.
I usually like bards, too, but something is just missing here. A certain je ne se qua.
Sorcerers bore me. Same with clerics and wizards. I'm down with a druid, though.
I usually like bards, too, but something is just missing here. A certain je ne se qua.
Sorcerers bore me. Same with clerics and wizards. I'm down with a druid, though.
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jgsugden
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Your comments on Warlock are unfair and misinformed if you think that all they do is spam Eldritch blast. At second level you can get unlimited illusions and you get to cast 2 spells per SR, which means 4 or 6 spells per LR. The last mid-level warlock I played had a rod of the pact keeper +1, a wand of fireballs, and boots of flying. He spammed Eldritch blast a lot, but he also dropped a lot of fireballs, created a lot of illusions, and was the PC that manipulated the environment the most (lock the door, break down the bridge, etc...) I did not feel like an Eldritch Blast machine gun.
Ath-kethin
Elder Thing
. . . but you also did not feel comfortable playing a warlock who didn't even know eldritch blast. It is too integral to the current design philosophy of the class.
I side with [MENTION=6786252]Mephista[/MENTION] here. I love what a warlock should be, but the class is seriously handicapped by the nearly all-encompassing focus on that one spell.
cbwjm
Legend
Personally, I think the problem is with the players who feel that they are somehow gimping themselves if they don't take eldritch blast and then back that spell up with hex and the +charisma to damage invocation.
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mflayermonk
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I voted Cleric. Its a living thing.
