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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacMathan" data-source="post: 6409435" data-attributes="member: 191">Sounds mostly like an issue for those who only played wizards in 3e at their zenith of power. If you played wizards at low levels in 1e or 2e the 5e wizards seems awesome. If you played a 4e wizard you are already used to being in line with the other classes in terms of power level across tiers. Seems like a feature and a fix for a bug that only crept in during 3e. Side note: not sure why you are taking Identify at low levels unless your DM is house ruling something. Just rest with the item and you know what it does in 5e. Save the spell known slot for something more useful. The gnome wizard in our game may not do the most damage every round but Sleep can be an encounter ender. Mix in what others have said about illusions and area effect spells and he definitely pulls his weight. I guess I never bought into the front line wizard thing, we used to call that a fighter/magic-user in earlier editions (heck Wizards getting a d6 HP/level is something big).  It is still possible though but takes some actual focus as opposed to being something any wizard can do on top of everything else. Then again I would argue that Dex and Con are very important secondary stats for wizards depending on where they want to fight from.</blockquote>