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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zimbel" data-source="post: 2643170" data-attributes="member: 29912">Sor vs WizPersonally, I've played a Sorcerer at LV 4,8-20. I've played a Wizard at LV 8-9, alongside a sorcerer.My perception:1) In the game where I played a Wizard, my perception was that at those levels, the Wizard was slightly weaker on average than the sorcerer. Usually, in one encounter/day, the Wizard would be stronger. The rest of the encouters, the Sorcerer would usually be stronger. I admit that some of this was my Wizard deliberately choosing spells to reduce the overlap between the casters.2) I find it very strange that there is little mention of what I think is one of the Wizard's great strengths - magic item creation. They are probably the best class for creating magic items, and around LV 9-10, (since many will spend a lot early on on a Blessed Book) having the feats (and, likely the spells) to create most of your own magic items is really nice - it effectively nearly doubles your wealth. Furthermore, if your DM is using the 3.5 XP methods, you won't be hurting for long in level, either.3) I find the Wizard's versitility nice, but perhaps not as nice as some Wizard advocates make it out to be. I find it primarily useful for non-time sensative situations (i.e. getting between adventures, temporary housing, etc). The realilty is that for the vast majority of spell levels, there are 4 spells that I'm interested in 90% of the time. Sorcerers eventually will get at least 3 of them.Changes I think should be made to the classes:1) I think that both classes should get 1d6 HP.2) I'd give the wizard 3 free spells (instead of 2) on each "even" level - I think that their versitility should be pumped up slightly for campaigns where buying scrolls or obtaining access to spellbooks is difficult.3) I'd pump up the familiar's power (at least their defensive power). Giving them 2/3 to 3/4 of the spellcaster's HP would help significantly.4) I'd weaken the high-level spells (actually, this is a comment for Clerics, Druids, and Psions as well).5) I'd give the Sorcerer more Cha-based class skills. Diplomacy and Intimidate come to mind.6) I'd make Wizard spell book copying/recovery substantially cheaper.</blockquote>

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