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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5520572" data-attributes="member: 3424">Well, my fundamental premise is that you're not going to have a god-wizard or a CoDzilla because unleashing a big bang in round three is going to be roughly as effective as releasing three standard attacks over three rounds. It then becomes just a matter of playstyle preference: do you prefer the continuous standard attack approach, or the big bang approach. As for attacking a minion or the barbarian getting a lucky crit against the most dangerous opponent - yes, these are the potential downsides. On the other hand, the party could be facing a solo or the barbarian might miss. Pros and cons - the essence of balance.It's a matter of personal preference. I'd rather have classes be more flexible that have a plethora of new classes. And for those who want to do something while building up to a medium bang (it has to be smaller than a big bang for balance reasons <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), just write up another power. Maybe you get to cast a magic missile and get a small bonus to the next attack roll with an arcane attack power or something. Not to be flippant, but ... because balance is no longer an issue? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Needing to spend three rounds to unleash a big bang which is about as effective as spending those three rounds making standard attacks seems a lot better balanced to me than casting a heavily metamagiced spell in a single round.</blockquote>

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