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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5651298" data-attributes="member: 82106">If you are talking about being able to use anything in CB then it is not the ONLY choice, but if the OP is really limited to PHB1 stuff, then yeah, it pretty much is the one choice. You might swap it out later, maybe, when you can pick up some other similar capability. There's basically a VERY high chance you WILL use Shield in any given combat, especially if you get close to the enemy much at all. Most characters do manage to get targeted a couple times in a given fight, and the probability of being able to stop one attack gets pretty high when you get attacked a couple times.The other choices are also just lackluster. Escape is not bad, but jump etc just don't come up often enough to be worth it. Even if you have other things later on that are equally good and maybe in a sense cheaper as they do double duty you probably will STILL take Shield simply because it is reliable and so useful. At higher levels you're likely to take more attacks, so it makes sense to have good defensive adds, especially if you end up with a big hole in FORT, which many builds will (orbizards infamously, who at epic are often just about auto-hit on FORT). Again though, being able to use more books REALLY helps wizards. You can be a nice PHB1 wizard, but it is not at all like being a 'use anything' wizard. Anyway, OP, there's another option with the wizard, that again is made better by later books, but is not a bad secondary option, which is to just crank on the utility aspects of the class. Expand your spell book, pick up every ritual under the sun, Pick up as many skills as you can (especially ones that relate to rituals like Healing, Nature, and Religion). If you do get access to other books you get more good rituals to choose from and you can go with the Tome of Readiness and pick up a Tome implement. Being able to do even a bit of power swapping is very nice.</blockquote>

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