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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 822055" data-attributes="member: 114">In my experience Sorcerers are better than wizards at 1st level, trail behind them until about 8th level and then come into their own.To recap a point that others have already made: A wizard has supreme strategic flexibility. A sorcerer has supreme tactical flexibility.A sorcerer can be the king of metamagic, far more so than the wizard. Most wizards who are able would keep a silent dispel magic or silent dimension door to escape from a silence spell... but if it doesn't work, or he gets hit by another, what can he do? A sorcerer in the same situation can decide to cast *any* of his spells bar the top level ones silently whenever he wants to.  My current sorcerer doesn't intend to learn Empower until 9th level (since it is only at 10th level it becomes really significant, with empowered fireballs in her case. No 1st/2nd spells I want to empower). Her first three feats were still spell, silent spell and enlarge spell - all of which are only +1 spell level, and give lots of opportunity for mixing and matching even though she's currently only 4th level.The ability of high level sorcerers to burn high level slots to power additional low level spells can be useful in some circumstances, but it is the ability to metamagic what you want, when you want that gives a mid-to-high level sorcerer his staying power.Cheers</blockquote>