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Message: <blockquote data-quote="raleel" data-source="post: 6452720" data-attributes="member: 21664">Right, I think that is some of what I was getting at. That and you have spell slots and spells memorized and that tends to promote you having a broader range of spells memorized. For example, you might have<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">bread and butter damage at no cost</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">long term defense</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">short term defense</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">single target control (wisdom based)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Single target control (con based)</li> </ol>and so on. Then use the flexibility of the slots to determine what I end up casting. Like the caster here did, I might fireball several times, but have a wide variety left over in those slot-level 3 capable spells.And it's not that this one was particularly bad or anything like that by any means, but things like fireball, lighting bolt, cone of cold AND burning hands. Those are all AOE damage, with the only real distinction being damage types (and range with burning hands, which I think is better served with thunderwave). While damage type can be quite important, I tend to only do one and a backup, and then rely on something else entirely (like your at will magic missile, which isn't great damage).I may not be explaining myself well here.</blockquote>