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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8254254" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>The 3.x comparisons have been around in this thread for a long time, often by people using 3.x-isms to defend the state of 5e like when someone referenced a level 8 bard/warlock spell as evidence of quadratic wizards because it used to be when it was a third level wizard spell as one particularly heinous example. It was those kind of comparisons that the post you were disagreeing with was refuting.</p><p></p><p>Well <em>"wizards have more prep slots than their reduced spell slots with which those linear wizards can prepare hamstrung spells usually also saddled with concentration hoping to desperately keep up as a maybe sometimes useful sidekick to their quadratic warrior party members" </em>hardly makes the case you tried to make disagreeing with what TheSword wrote. The fact that Wizards have significantly fewer spell slots is a pretty critical factor to ignore when the spells themselves are also significantly worse and the spells/creatures/magic items are each being designed by wotc as if they still had the old spells old flexibility & old monsters. </p><p></p><p>In short, your point ignores the state of 5e itself & holds up bad design as some kind of gold star because it looks ok if you only look at an extremely narrow subset of the whole </p><p></p><p>[USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER] this video? [MEDIA=youtube]OkHapG6kXUg[/MEDIA]</p><p>He's not wrong & goodberry's 1hp healing berries can't take all of the blame for the combination of5e's rest mechanics once they are paired with phb197 getting rid of damage beyond zero.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8254254, member: 93670"] The 3.x comparisons have been around in this thread for a long time, often by people using 3.x-isms to defend the state of 5e like when someone referenced a level 8 bard/warlock spell as evidence of quadratic wizards because it used to be when it was a third level wizard spell as one particularly heinous example. It was those kind of comparisons that the post you were disagreeing with was refuting. Well [I]"wizards have more prep slots than their reduced spell slots with which those linear wizards can prepare hamstrung spells usually also saddled with concentration hoping to desperately keep up as a maybe sometimes useful sidekick to their quadratic warrior party members" [/I]hardly makes the case you tried to make disagreeing with what TheSword wrote. The fact that Wizards have significantly fewer spell slots is a pretty critical factor to ignore when the spells themselves are also significantly worse and the spells/creatures/magic items are each being designed by wotc as if they still had the old spells old flexibility & old monsters. In short, your point ignores the state of 5e itself & holds up bad design as some kind of gold star because it looks ok if you only look at an extremely narrow subset of the whole [USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER] this video? [MEDIA=youtube]OkHapG6kXUg[/MEDIA] He's not wrong & goodberry's 1hp healing berries can't take all of the blame for the combination of5e's rest mechanics once they are paired with phb197 getting rid of damage beyond zero. [/QUOTE]
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