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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6169876" data-attributes="member: 58197">Like I said, it's a playtest. We don't have a complete spell list yet. Those three spells give us an idea of what we can expect, in terms of AoE, from a &quot;native&quot; 5th-level or 8th-level or 9th-level blasting spell.And I wouldn't be surprised if we got a spell-widening option in the feat list. Mages in this packet don't really have any feat support; I don't see a single feat that I would even consider for my mage before maxing out my Intelligence.Well, &quot;bad&quot; is relative. 3.5E blasters were quite solid by any reasonable standard. Pick up Empower Spell to boost your damage output, Energy Substitution to get around damage resistance, and a few orb spells for magic resistant foes, and you'd contribute on par with a well-built noncaster.It's just that when you looked at what save-or-lose and utility spells could do, blasting was... well, let's just say it was a sub-optimal choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6169876, member: 58197"] Like I said, it's a playtest. We don't have a complete spell list yet. Those three spells give us an idea of what we can expect, in terms of AoE, from a "native" 5th-level or 8th-level or 9th-level blasting spell. And I wouldn't be surprised if we got a spell-widening option in the feat list. Mages in this packet don't really have any feat support; I don't see a single feat that I would even consider for my mage before maxing out my Intelligence. Well, "bad" is relative. 3.5E blasters were quite solid by any reasonable standard. Pick up Empower Spell to boost your damage output, Energy Substitution to get around damage resistance, and a few orb spells for magic resistant foes, and you'd contribute on par with a well-built noncaster. It's just that when you looked at what save-or-lose and utility spells could do, blasting was... well, let's just say it was a sub-optimal choice. [/QUOTE]

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