For one thing, none of the evocation wizard cantrips have saves - fire bolt and ray of frost are ranged spell attacks, and shocking grasp is a melee spell attack. The only wizard cantrips that have saves are conjuration (acid splash and poison spray). Sure, there's no particular need for them to be evocations, but it's silly if the Evoker has an ability that's only useful with Conjuration spells.
In my campaigns I replaced this really weak ability with Evocation Mastery (+1 damage per die on all evocation spells of 1st level or higher). Everyone is happy now and the improvement isn't too much that would create other types of problems (I have way more trouble with the overpowered sculpt spells ability).
Hi Dagon! Interesting post to cast Necromancy on, given it's 9 years old. But I'm curious what you think of the new Potent Cantrip which says, "Your damaging cantrips affect even creatures that avoid the brunt of the effect. When you cast a cantrip at a creature and you miss with the attack roll or the target succeeds on a saving throw against the cantrip, the target takes half the cantrip’s damage (if any) but suffers no additional effect from the cantrip?"
