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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rynic" data-source="post: 6965400" data-attributes="member: 6865528">Sorcerers have very little "baked-in stuff."I mean the constitution proficiency for helping with Concentration checks, the Wild Mage's Tides of Chaos, Bend Luck, the Dragon Sorcerer's extra hit point per level, mage armour, damage increase, elemental resistance. All of these are geared towards helping them survive combat and keeping their spells working.The Barbarian has bonuses built into it's rage.As cool as a spell like Imprisonment is, it still requires the enemy to fail their saving throw. Very few spells allow you to influence mental saves. Bane is one.On the contrary, the sorcerer is about output, not efficiency. It can expend long rest resources faster than any other class. For example, if you Twin a Haste spell. While it's up, it's twice as effective as a wizard's Haste spell. That's nice. But if the fight ends next round or if you lose concentration, you've paid the equivalent of two 3rd level slots and suffer twice the Haste dump for very little gain. Powerful when it works, especially wasteful when it doesn't.It's an extra third level slot for the price of a second level. Casting haste on a single fighter, then casting it again when it runs out is pretty wasteful. Two hasted fighters can turn a monster to mince meat. It's better to just kill a monster as fast as possible.Or cast it on yourself +2 AC, Dex, Take the dodge action for while still casting other spells. Or hide out sight. Twinning is basically casting two spells for less. It has a specific context. You can't cast them at different times but it's still very good at saving energy. Extended spell is probably one of the weakest metamagics, but it can allow more exploration. Extended mage armour means you can take a long rest and not have to worry about it after 8 hours. Extended Invisibility means you can take a short rest, while also invisible.As for Empowered. If you roll <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> dice on a high level spell (several 1s or 2s on a fireball). Re-roll. Otherwise it's wasting a spell slot.Quickened Cantrips. Cantrips are free. At high levels they increase in power. A single Cantrip isn't very strong but two of them, adding modifiers (Dragon Elemental Affinity/ Spell Bombardment -ready the action to go off on another turn)That's 8d8 +10 for the cost of a level 1 slot.</blockquote>

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