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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8480469" data-attributes="member: 5889">Sure...in which case than healing word is absolutely the right spell to use. The argument was that it would be VERY RARE that healing word was not the best spell to use, and so I countered with a very reasonable example.My argument though is not that silvery barbs trumps all other spells all the time. That is not the definition of OP to me (though a spell that did would certainly be OP). For me, an OP spell grants a significant boost in power beyond the normal power curve, that its existance makes the spellcaster a much stronger threat than they were before. If I could cast meteor swarm as a 1st level spell....there would still be cases where healing word would be a good option (such as a fire immune creature for example). That doesn't stop the meteor swarm slinging wizard from being insanely OP<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=":)" />This spell is on my radar because of that definition. This spell means that a wizard is much more likely to land crippling control spells on monsters, its existence makes a whole slew of spells more powerful. This spell means that one player is much less likely to be affected by something nasty. And it's at the cheap cost of a 1st level spell with no concentration.</blockquote>

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