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<blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1712187" data-attributes="member: 7884">What's with the whole &quot;watch out you don't hit your friends with your AoE spells&quot;?&nbsp; I've played wizards for years now, and it's an endearing trait of all my wizards that they nuke the party along with the bad guys.&nbsp; It's a cost-benefit analysis, and who in the party is best able to undertake said analysis than the neutral-aligned wizard with the genius intelligence?&nbsp; Besides, the monk and the rogue have evasion, the cleric has resist elements up, and the fighter has hitpoints up the wazoo.&nbsp; Hit points are one of the most readily available and readily recovered resources in the game.&nbsp; When the party's surrounded by girallons with five attacks per round and a rend, or by undead beasties with life-leaching abilities, you want the combat over in as short a time as possible.&nbsp; Killing the bad guys with the collateral damage of hit point loss to your own party may well be the best strategy!On the actual question asked, I agree with all the previous comments!Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Al'Kelhar, post: 1712187, member: 7884"] What's with the whole "watch out you don't hit your friends with your AoE spells"? I've played wizards for years now, and it's an endearing trait of all my wizards that they nuke the party along with the bad guys. It's a cost-benefit analysis, and who in the party is best able to undertake said analysis than the neutral-aligned wizard with the genius intelligence? Besides, the monk and the rogue have evasion, the cleric has [i]resist elements[/i] up, and the fighter has hitpoints up the wazoo. Hit points are one of the most readily available and readily recovered resources in the game. When the party's surrounded by girallons with five attacks per round and a rend, or by undead beasties with life-leaching abilities, you want the combat over in as short a time as possible. Killing the bad guys with the collateral damage of hit point loss to your own party may well be the best strategy! On the actual question asked, I agree with all the previous comments! Cheers, Al'Kelhar [/QUOTE]

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