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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8975179" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I don't think this is true if you consider limited spells slots, subclass abilities and fighting style.  Subclasses and fighting style for the most part boost damage or boost tankability or both while most wizard subclasses do not do that.  Wizards also can't do 95% of the tankability if they focus on damage.  It really is either-or.  They can do over 95% of the tankability if they focus on defense (probably over 100% on a bladesinger given equal constitution in tier 2), but their damage will suffer, because to keep the edge in tankability they need to use spells like blur instead of spells like shadowblade. But that is 3 fails and enemies with legendaries are not going to take a long time to fail 3 times.  For example you are fighting an aboleth (the lowest CR I could find with LR) and you have a 20 casting stat at level 8 for a DC of 16:Most of your SOS spells are Wisdom, Int or Con which are +6, +8 and +6 respectively in both.  So he has a 55% chance of making his Wisdom or Con save.  This means on average it will take you 8 rounds (and 8 spells) before he fails a single save against you.   A damage dealing martial, assuming he is not killed or incapacitated, will typically kill an Aboleth in 8 rounds if he goes Nova.   Now having a Monk on hand or multiple casters with SOS spells shortens this significantly, but burning through legendaries is very difficult to do as a single caster.</blockquote>

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