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Message: <blockquote data-quote="B.T." data-source="post: 5884922" data-attributes="member: 84465">I'm pretty sure that they've confirmed at-will powers for wizards with the burning lance (or spear or something) in the playtest.Perhaps not for you.  But there are some players who look fondly on the days when clerics didn't cast spells at first level.  Personally, I'm in favor of a mixed system: most spells are daily resources, but wizards have an encounter power or two they can use, along with some at-will cantrips (as in 4e).I expect that this will be factored into the nerfing of high-level spells.  It doesn't much matter if you can cast spells all day if you're casting magic missile each time.   In previous editions (2e, at least), casting spells all day was far less of an issue than in 3e for a few reasons.  First of all, creatures were more likely to make their saves (no scaling save DCs), so your spell slots were likely to be wasted.  Second of all, it was far more difficult to cast a spell in combat (a single point of damage causes the spell to fail and spells have long initiative counts).  Third of all, many of the powerful spells had built-in limiters (costly material components and nasty side-effects like system shock).  Fourthly, a wizard didn't get to choose his spells (as far as I am aware), and purchasing them to copy in his spellbook them was up to DM fiat.  Finally, wizards were always in danger in combat and leveled more slowly than other classes (two strikes since they accumulated their lowly d4 HD less quickly than fighters would get their d10 HD), meaning that they were less likely to survive to higher levels, meaning the problem was less likely to creep up in gameplay. In short, wizards being overpowered is a relatively new phenomenon.  I feel that the developers learned the wrong lesson when making 4e.  Hopefully they won't make it again.</blockquote>

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