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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9790077" data-attributes="member: 93670">Having more slots is entirely different from having them filled with spells that are relevant to the scenarios you find yourself in with the numbers desired.  Back in pre-4e editions where vancian casting/prep was the norm it was normal and almost expected for casters to finish an adventuring day and go into a rest with a significant portion of their spell slots unused.  When you've only got one cast prepared of an ace in the hole spell it's a big risk to cast it uselessly against a monster with high sr or a monster that doesn't require the big guns when you might need it later.  If you have two or three of that spell prepared instead of just one that's one or two other spells that you could not prepare.  Neovancian is prep all of them and make YOLO the mantra for what to cast however often  you please.  Casters in 5e have far more effective spell slots because of their ability to slot in any prepared spell into any slot of equal or greater level without needing to resort to tricks like taking a metamagic feat to prepare a daily driver spell like web at +1 slot level then a second to prep at +2 or both together at +3.  The caster didn't need a widened extended cast of a spell so much as they wanted to upcast various spells into higher slot levels they have lessened for</blockquote>