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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 1471775" data-attributes="member: 527">I agree wholeheartedly with this.  To extend on it a little, when the Sorcerer is "on" he tends to be a bit of an artillery piece, throwing multiple high-damage spells over the course of a day's combat.  Thus, he has greater synergy with the Metamagic Rod than the Wizard who doesn't function as artillery as often.  (I ignore the thing about Bards, never played with a high level Bard.  ;-)  ) The usage limit is true, but the function of the Sorcerer has more synergy with the Rod than the function of the Wizard.  In the case I am thinking of the Sorcerer threw 1 Maximized, Empowered Lightning Bolt, 2 Maximized (Empowered?) Magic Missiles, 2 Disintegrates and a Teleport as his 6 spells for the day, 3 maximized.  The Wizard's spell loadout was split much more cautiously into offense, defense and exploration modes; he never used his Rod during combat since the right situation never came up.The limit only comes into play for the Wizard if he has prepped spells that he is likely to maximize, such as spells of a proper elemental damage type.  If he doesn't have the proper prep, he won't get to use the Rod fully.  This applies to being conservative, by taking 1 Fireball, 1 Lightning Bolt and 1 Cone of Cold for instance.  OTOH, as long as the Sorcerer knows a relevant spell, he will use it fully.  Opponents immune to fire?  The Sorcerer can throw 3 Maximized Lightning Bolts if he so chooses.  So the Sorcerer has greater synergy with the Rod.I hope that makes sense.  I'm not sure my explanation is the clearest.</blockquote>

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