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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8081950" data-attributes="member: 72555">I'm talking about variance.A 5th level cleric has 4/3/2 slots.&nbsp; A 5th level warlock has -/-/2 slots.You have 2 short rests.&nbsp; And in each between rest period, you cast 3 total levels of concentration spells (sometimes a 3rd, sometime a 2nd and a 1st in another fight) and want to keep them upImagine 1 cast in 2 you lose concentration, 1 in 4 you lose it twice.&nbsp; So 1.75 casts per concentration spell to keep it up.The cleric has to burn an average of 5.25 total spell levels per rest, times 3 is 15.8.&nbsp; They have 16.&nbsp; On a bad day, they run short, but less than half of days will have them run out of concentration buffs.Meanwhile, the warlock tries to cast a single 3rd level concentration spell per rest.&nbsp; They have 18 total spell levels. per day&nbsp; If they dedicate all of their slots (18 levels worth) to keeping up the concentration spell, 58% of days they still lose concentration and have no slot left to recast it.And most days they'll rest with unspent slots.Some days the cleric may be reduced to using a 1st or 2nd level concentration buff during a hard fight (because they burned both of their 3rd level slots on concentration breaks), but they have the volume to reduce variance.&nbsp; Warlocks don't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 8081950, member: 72555"] I'm talking about variance. A 5th level cleric has 4/3/2 slots. A 5th level warlock has -/-/2 slots. You have 2 short rests. And in each between rest period, you cast 3 total levels of concentration spells (sometimes a 3rd, sometime a 2nd and a 1st in another fight) and want to keep them up Imagine 1 cast in 2 you lose concentration, 1 in 4 you lose it twice. So 1.75 casts per concentration spell to keep it up. The cleric has to burn an average of 5.25 total spell levels per rest, times 3 is 15.8. They have 16. On a bad day, they run short, but less than half of days will have them run out of concentration buffs. Meanwhile, the warlock tries to cast a single 3rd level concentration spell per rest. They have 18 total spell levels. per day If they dedicate [I]all[/I] of their slots (18 levels worth) to keeping up the concentration spell, 58% of days they still lose concentration and have no slot left to recast it. And most days they'll rest with unspent slots. Some days the cleric may be reduced to using a 1st or 2nd level concentration buff during a hard fight (because they burned both of their 3rd level slots on concentration breaks), but they have the volume to reduce variance. Warlocks don't. [/QUOTE]

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