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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7038226" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Higher-level spells are valuable in other ways, besides just numbers. A level-three Fireball spells would still be way more useful than a level-three Burning Hands spell, even if they did the same damage; a large area-of-effect is a useful parameter which is limited to high-level spell slots.Why should the multi-class character be penalized exponentially, just for wanting a little versatility? Why do they need to deal less damage per target and affect fewer targets? If high-level spells are better than low-level spells, without regard to numbers, then having low-level wizard spells and high-level wizard spells should already be better than having low-level wizard spells and low-level cleric spells.What the rules are saying, when they build in this sort of obvious disparity, is that multi-classing is a novice mistake for players who don't know any better, and if they were more experienced then they should be playing the character as a bard or something. It's exactly the kind of design mindset which I thought they'd left behind with the past two editions, and which still infects Pathfinder, but I guess I was wrong on that point.</blockquote>