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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Denaes" data-source="post: 2634738" data-attributes="member: 33738">MM & FB are "normal" Sorcerer spells because they're the most popular combat spells for all casters?No that doesn't answer that question at all. There is no reason to say that they're more popular for Sorcerers than they are for Wizards or Clerics who have access to them as well. They're just the most popular lower level combat spells, period. Nothing to do with the class. There arn't any "normal" spells for a Sorcerer. To say say so would be to insinuate that there is a specific build that is right for a Sorcerer, which isn't true. There is a build common to all Arcane casters, which is to have combat spells as this is a particularily combat oriented game. I wouldn't say that all Arcane casters go out of their way for combat effectiveness (just basically having spells to cast in combat), but I think it's far more common to see combat spells than Arcane casters without combat spells. This has absolutely nothing to do with Sorcerers in specific, which is what the questioner had asked. It has to do with Arcane casters, the spell lists granted and the type/frequency of combats compared to an Arcane casters other abilities... ie, given so much expected combat and no natural predisposition for melee combat (unlike a cleric), it's a nobrainer that Combat spells will be chosen.</blockquote>