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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razilin" data-source="post: 3409496" data-attributes="member: 50914">I could say "neither" or "both are good, depending on gaming style"...but hell with that--this is a One or the Other question, and by Jove, I'm gonna pick a side and NOT sit on some lame fence!Sorcerer!Why? 1) I'm not a magic item creator type of player. 2) I like fighting. A lot.1) is self explanatory. As to 2), I find the wizard to possess all the flexibility that a Swiss army knife has. That's great. But you don't see any WWI soldiers carrying a Swiss army knife as a bayonet. Because I like to get into the thick of a fight regardless of my class, the sorcerer is up my alley, especially after PHB2 and SPell Compendium came out--with their boatloads of swift and immediate action spells.I no longer need to cast shield and waste a round. I can cast Deflect or Lesser Deflect as a swift/immediate action and bombard my enemy IN THE SAME ROUND with a fireball. I no longer need to cast protection from energy; I cast energy aegis as an immediate action instead. Granted, swift/immediate spells are like premature ejaculation--feels good for all of 6 seconds. But, premature ejaculation still gets a girl pregnant, so it does the job. Same with spells--they keep you alive for one more round, while you take the life of your enemy at the same time.Given the fact that a sorcerer can cast spells without preparation, I have a much greater degree of flexibility (in combat, at least) than a wizard ever could. That's perfectly fine with me. I want to ID a magic item or open a locked door? I'll call the wizard or rogue. You want the dragon dead? I'll take it head on with just as much gusto as the barbarian.Now, there is a big flaw with my strategy, that being the spells known progression of the sorcerer. Each new level of spells that gets accessed is depressingly divided--will that one 3rd level spell be a fireball or an energy aegis? An attack spell or life-saving defense? I like to play defensively and just metamagic the crap out of my low level attack spells, so I usually opt for the defensive spell myself.</blockquote>

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