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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8479519" data-attributes="member: 7030563">Not everything.&nbsp; You need a 15 strength, which is largely useless and you have to give up points elsewhere to keep this.&nbsp; Wisdom, Dexterity and Constitution are all more important for a wizard and are collectively a LOT lower since you need to invest so much in strength.&nbsp; You will need to make what is the normal wizard dump stat your 2nd higest stat.&nbsp; Since you are playing a human and not taking a half-feat you are also down on point buy compared to most other races.Also, the original thread I replied to talked about &quot;plenty&quot; of slots for shield, there are not plenty if you are getting attacked regularly and doing &quot;everything a wizard can do offensively&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; At 6th level you have at most 12 spell slots a day, including the 3 1st-level you can get back with AR. If you are throwing a magic missile and scorching ray every fight you will have no slots for shield.&nbsp;If you are doing &quot;everything a wizard can do defensively&quot; then sure, you do have plenty because you are using other things like blur, PEG or mirror image to make yourself even harder to hit and probably only need shield a few times a day .... but then you also do need a weapon to do even average damage and your downright awful dexterity saves are still a pretty big limfac compared to a more traditional build.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8479519, member: 7030563"] Not everything. You need a 15 strength, which is largely useless and you have to give up points elsewhere to keep this. Wisdom, Dexterity and Constitution are all more important for a wizard and are collectively a LOT lower since you need to invest so much in strength. You will need to make what is the normal wizard dump stat your 2nd higest stat. Since you are playing a human and not taking a half-feat you are also down on point buy compared to most other races. Also, the original thread I replied to talked about "plenty" of slots for shield, there are not plenty if you are getting attacked regularly and doing "everything a wizard can do offensively". At 6th level you have at most 12 spell slots a day, including the 3 1st-level you can get back with AR. If you are throwing a magic missile and scorching ray every fight you will have no slots for shield. If you are doing "everything a wizard can do defensively" then sure, you do have plenty because you are using other things like blur, PEG or mirror image to make yourself even harder to hit and probably only need shield a few times a day .... but then you also do need a weapon to do even average damage and your downright awful dexterity saves are still a pretty big limfac compared to a more traditional build. [/QUOTE]

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