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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6520513" data-attributes="member: 5834">I think concentration is badly designed.Some reasons:1. One concentration spell for defensive, offensive, and utility spells is too limiting. Once you have an active concentration spell like wall of fire, your spell list loses four or five other options. If you decide to use the other option like fly or protection from energy, you end the wall of fire wasting a 4th level spell slot (maximum 3 per day) and once again shorten your spell list. It makes for a very limiting and frustrating experience as a wizard to cast a defensive or utility concentration spell, then have your offense consist of direct damage cantrips or spells.2. Concentration checks are harsh. You have to take either Warcaster or Resilient Con as a caster to have a decent chance of maintaining concentration. Even with either of those feats, breath weapons or other AoE or large damage attacks make a concentration check nearly impossible. If you get hit for 50 damage with a breath weapon, that is a DC 25 Concentration check. Even with a high Con save, you're looking at +7 con save and an 18 or better to maintain your spell. If you don't have those feats, you're looking at a natural 20 required for concentration. When concentration is broken, you have to spend another action to get the lost spell back up while the creature you're fighting outputs damage that may kill your party off. This can happen multiple times if the creature you're fighting has Lair or Legendary Actions it can hit you with every round. They concentration mechanic as it is currently designed isn't fun. It gets worse and worse as you level with more creatures hitting harder and harder and having more attacks. You have even fewer high level spell slots, so losing one to a failed concentration check is frustrating to say the least. It makes you not even want to play the character any more. You have an active sunbeam and two level 6 slots, you get hit by a breath weapon. You lost that slot and didn't get much out of it. Makes you not even want to risk using it for spells that can be dispelled by getting hit by a common powerful AoE attack with nearly no chance of succeeding at the concentration check. I hope they look at this mechanic. It is making playing a wizard not particularly fun. Doubt I'll do it again if they don't do something with concentration soon.</blockquote>

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