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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 3534593" data-attributes="member: 78">A warmage is kind of like a sorcerer, except that some goofball picked a bunch of largely redundant spells.  The warmage's absolute advantage in blasting comes down to a small bonus to damage and the ability to attack with every energy type.  Too bad warmages don't have the knowledge skills to discern monster resistances and thus effectively select their energy attacks.  The Kineticist is a better blaster than the warmage, can also wear armor, and is more versatile.Quite frankly, the new themed classes are exactly the opposite of a good sorcerer.  Theme is anathema to the sorcerer class.  The warmage, beguiler, and dread necromancer are more like specialist wizards intensified to be separate classes.  The warmage is the evoker, with some of the better attack spells with other schools (and classes!).  The beguiler is the illusionist/enchanter combo, and gets sufficient skills to disappear, trick, and charm with mundane as well as magical methods.  The dread necromancer combines arcane and divine necromancy, some tools to buff up their undead, lichy abilities, and then some other BBEG stuff (planar bindings, geas).Besides mass bindings, a sorcerer can easily prepare for a fight.  How, you ask?  First, look at how a wizard prepares: he purchases (or otherwise aquires) scrolls, and scribes them into his spellbook, and then can prepare them when needed or produce several scrolls of his own cheaply.  Without additional spells, the wizard scarcely has an advantage in spells known over a sorcerer.  A sorcerer just has to get scrolls and use them.  He may bear some added costs since he has to pay for each use (or pay more, if the wizard is scribing scrolls of his utility spells), but he also doesn't have the expense of a spellbook.It's the themed casters that can't really prepare for a fight.  How can a warmage gear up for a tough fight?  What scrolls are they going to use - more copies of spells they can already cast in abundance?  If their limited range of abilities isn't going to cut, they either have to get someone/thing else to take care of things (granted, beguilers and dread necs can be good with indirect methods), or go Use Magic Device.</blockquote>

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