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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3771125" data-attributes="member: 13966">Not really.You seem to be ignoring the very definitions of the words, for instance.  :\  Tactical is the situation/actions during one battle.  Strategic is the overall combat situation of a mission/campaign/etc. and all the planning/coordination/tension that goes with it.Having to worry about expending your only Fireball of the current battle is hardly as pressing a concern as expending your only Fireball of the current hour, day, or week.In the first case your Fireball will be useable again in a few minutes or less anyway, so it's hardly much of a decision at all; the only reason you wouldn't use it yet is because your comrades have already foolishly charged into the thick of melee like retards (...or raging barbarians), OR because the enemies jumped you and already rushed into melee with your comrades.Then once your Fireball is expended and many enemies are burning, you let loose with the Scorching Rays or Webs or what-have-you, since you'll get them back after the battle anyhow.  Once those are gone you resort to your at-will Magic Missile or-what-have-you.  And once the battle is finished, you resume the next fight at full or nearly-full power.There might have been a temporary challenge for you in the fight, but you're the mage, so you stayed up in a tree or something and are probably unscathed, barring the occasional arrow that hits.  Eventually those rare arrow-hits will require you to rest and recuperate, assuming the cleric hasn't just used one of his per-encounter or at-will healing spells to make you more-or-less fully functional again.Sure, you may have a few paltry spells that are limited per-day, but they hardly matter because being at 80% effectiveness all the time doesn't really make most fights challenging to you, in and of itself.  Sure the big boss fights or similar will require you to expend those superior per-day spells, but you're not going to fight several such battles in one day.  So you don't have to worry about not having those minor per-day resources available.You can mow through a goblin warren one tunnel at a time, all in one day, just using the occasional Expeditious Retreat or similar to buy yourself a 5-minute breather or whatever to replenish your per-encounter magic.</blockquote>

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