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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9419143" data-attributes="member: 58172"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3QHi4pY1o" target="_blank">D4 D&amp;D Deep Dive</a> with Treantmonk both focus on optimization builds. They note that 2024 damage-per-round tends to do more damage, but the spiking damage (going nova) is notably less damage. Thus some of the older damage optimization builds are less effective.The Warlock Eldritch Blast with go-to Invocation boosts used to serve as a &quot;standard&quot; for damage-per-round. But now, the martial classes generally do significantly more damage, making the Eldritch Blast a floor rather than a midway.The Wizard got no meaningful boosts. Apparently two of its subclasses even got nerfed somewhat. But the Wizard was always good, and still is. It is the spells that make the Wizard great. There were three spells specifically (undisclosed) that both thought should have been nerfed but werent, so will continue for future optimization builds.On the other hand, the Sorcerer class got a dramatic boost. At least for performance during combat, D4 considers it now the best class in the 2024 game. Treantmonk still ranks the Wizard best because of access to rituals out of combat.Warlock got a dramatic boost too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9419143, member: 58172"] [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3QHi4pY1o']D4 D&D Deep Dive[/URL] with Treantmonk both focus on optimization builds. They note that 2024 damage-per-round tends to do more damage, but the spiking damage (going nova) is notably less damage. Thus some of the older damage optimization builds are less effective. The Warlock Eldritch Blast with go-to Invocation boosts used to serve as a "standard" for damage-per-round. But now, the martial classes generally do significantly more damage, making the Eldritch Blast a floor rather than a midway. The Wizard got no meaningful boosts. Apparently two of its subclasses even got nerfed somewhat. But the Wizard was always good, and still is. It is the spells that make the Wizard great. There were three spells specifically (undisclosed) that both thought should have been nerfed but werent, so will continue for future optimization builds. On the other hand, the Sorcerer class got a dramatic boost. At least for performance during combat, D4 considers it now the best class in the 2024 game. Treantmonk still ranks the Wizard best because of access to rituals out of combat. Warlock got a dramatic boost too. [/QUOTE]

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