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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drquestion" data-source="post: 2966822" data-attributes="member: 5810">I like the Sorcerer Heritage feats, and don't think they're overpowered.The damage-dealing ones are nice for low-level sorcerers.  As you point out, they can  outdo low-level damage spells, at least until llevels 5-8 or so.  I see this as a positive, however.  Low-level sorcerers have very few spell choices, and taking one of the damage-dealing heritage feats allows them to concentrate more of their early picks on utility rather than damaging spells, which should make them less boring to play.  Plus, as you say, a sorcerer is spending two feats to get the ability, so he ought to get a benefit out of it, and it's not like they're staggeringly powerful even at low levels - 2d6 area damage out of a 1st-level slot seems reasonable to me.Unlike you, I don't see too many sorcerers primarily relying on these spells for damage, unless their build really isn't focused on blasting.  Consider that by 8th level, a scorching ray does 8d6 damage (albeit not to an area) vs. 4d6 for using a slot on the feat.  Fireball is 8d6 (with a much longer range and a generally better area) vs. 6d6.  And the feats only get weaker in comparison from there - at 10th level sorcerer could use a 5th level slot for an empowered fireball (if he has the feat) to do 15d6 damage.The feats will still be situationally useful - they're Su, and the Celestial and Infernal ones do rare damage types - but they're not going to approach the raw damage output of spells once the sorcerer hits the low-mid levels.The other, non-damaging, heritage feats are generally nice, but a little underwhelming.  Most of them are designed so that a sorcerer has to devote most of his feat slots to them to get significant benefits, which really cuts down on his ability to take metamagic and other useful feats.</blockquote>

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