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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1757650" data-attributes="member: 172">As stated, I have a lot of NPCs to make for my game. If I am going to sit down and stat out my characters, that's where my major interest lies. I already feel that Sorren satisfactorily showed that sorcerers are, within their limitations, not too bad off (but still, I think the sorcerer is a weak class.)I don't feel I could serve my position well making a sorcerer anyways, since 1) Thanee's example uses a power I feel needs errata'd and 2) I beleive a sorcerer is weak to begin with. So I would expect such a match-up to show the sorcerer wanting. That being the case, why waste my time with the match up when by those points, I beleive that the outcome of the match-up is what you beleive it will be. Perhaps you could querry one of the folks who weighed in to say that they don't agree with the premise of the "how to buff up the sorcerer" thread? They might actually have some reason to beleive a sorcerer is competitive that they might take into account that I don't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Now a wizard, I could probably make a credible attempt at. (Though he still wouldn't match the DCs of an un-errata'd energy missile). That said, you have sort of stacked the deck against me if you expect a wizard not to use scrolls. That's one of their bennies.However, I don't feel a wizard's strengths are best demonstrated by design contest to deal with a known set of obstacles. The wizard's broad availability of spells coupled with their ability to leave a slot open means that their abilities are best highlighted in blind tests. Of course, that makes the whole deal more random as well.I think I brought this point up in another thread, but it is my considered opinion that balance is very situation-sensitive, and the ultimate measure of balance is whether the GM (and fellow players) find it difficult to accomodate the character in question, and/or whether characters of the different classes are left with competancies that make them feel they have an important contribution to the game. I feel, from actual experience, that a psion is not difficult to accomodate, though I would feel hard pressed to come up with a representative test to demonstrate this short of... running a few games.</blockquote>

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