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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9499039" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Wizards: Spells on spells on spells. Forget class features (mostly). Everything is spells. You have the most--in per-day terms and size of your list. Just be ready to read through 100+ pages of book text (or read guides online) to get the most out of it. Really though, there's a short list of amazeballs spells, and you can spend all your cash on buying the weird ones 'cause magic items barely matter for you.Sorcerers: Kings of Spam, especially if mixed properly with Warlock. You don't have as many spells, but you can do trick shots with them. Wizard requires up-front research to know all your options. Sorcerer requires up-front research so you don't screw yourself with crappy picks on the few spells you actually get. Metamagic helps--so pick good ones--but mostly those just make your damage spells more flexible.Clerics and Druids: You don't have a big spell list, but you know all of it. That's a big deal, and means you can fall back on ol' reliables. This is also where class features really start to matter a lot; unlike metamagic, your class-specific resource (Channel Divinity and Wildshape, respectively) and subclass-specific features actually matter a fair amount, so spells are just one part of the picture, not all of it.Bards: The pseudo-generalist. You'll still be picking something you focus on (5e does not really reward generalist characters much), but the class itself can be bent toward almost any end. Between that and wanting good Cha and Dex, you're also a great skillmonkey and face, so it's rare for you to have nothing at all to contribute. Just pick spells wisely--you're like a Sorcerer without the bonus flexibility of metamagic. I'd say this is where class features matter slightly more than spells.Warlock: Build Your Own Class. This is the go-to if you want the freedom to do whatever you want, and don't care about the risk of maybe being not very good at whatever you wanted to do. Guardrails are off and you can blend together nearly all the components of any other class, especially with the right choice of Patron (Celestial = decent healer, frex). Your class features (+ cantrips) are arguably more important than your (levelled) spells, though (levelled) spells remain important.</blockquote>

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