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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8252779" data-attributes="member: 5889">My general experience has been that in combat, martials fare more comparably to wizards compared to 3e.That said, casters tend to start more &quot;cinematically dominating&quot; at higher levels....aka consuming more attention. The wizard stops the party to cast a divination, the bard plays with their dominated person and now plays with two characters for a while, etc. The sorceror casts truesight and gets more information about the secret room they have found.The utility aspect of casting is still very important in 5e at higher levels, so in the lead up to the fight, the casters gain more of the spotlight and DM attention in my experience, and then the martials do fine in the actual fight.Also just noting on the subject that &quot;damage doesn't scale automatically anymore&quot;. While that is true, spell DCs do now scale automatically, where they didn't used to before. We could argue whether DCs vs saves are now stronger or weaker compared to old editions, but the fact that a 1st level spell still is just as effectives save wise as an 6th level spell is a big deal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 8252779, member: 5889"] My general experience has been that in combat, martials fare more comparably to wizards compared to 3e. That said, casters tend to start more "cinematically dominating" at higher levels....aka consuming more attention. The wizard stops the party to cast a divination, the bard plays with their dominated person and now plays with two characters for a while, etc. The sorceror casts truesight and gets more information about the secret room they have found. The utility aspect of casting is still very important in 5e at higher levels, so in the lead up to the fight, the casters gain more of the spotlight and DM attention in my experience, and then the martials do fine in the actual fight. Also just noting on the subject that "damage doesn't scale automatically anymore". While that is true, spell DCs do now scale automatically, where they didn't used to before. We could argue whether DCs vs saves are now stronger or weaker compared to old editions, but the fact that a 1st level spell still is just as effectives save wise as an 6th level spell is a big deal. [/QUOTE]

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