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<blockquote data-quote="Grraf" data-source="post: 280211" data-attributes="member: 3791">As a DM I've been seeing a lot of buffing recently. Buffing spells are much more useful when1. The party is going to encounter a lot of not terribly threatening encounters. Bull's strengthing the fighter makes a huge difference.2. When combats are challenging but short in duration, known of in advance (i.e. we're going into a cave with something in it) and the caster can't get off all their spells before the battle is over. In this case casting a spell in advance improves the odds of the spell slot having some impact.3. When the future is unknown and varied. Most spells have relatively short durations, fixed effects and other limits. Especially for wizards buffing spells let them have a spell or two which is general in purpose and applicable in a number of different situations.(clearly a sorc would learn buffing spells for similar reasons though the mindset is different)When you know you'll be fighting packs of snow wolves fireballs a no brainer. (Partially because its D&amp;D) The likelyhood of somebody hitting something with a weapon is always high.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grraf, post: 280211, member: 3791"] As a DM I've been seeing a lot of buffing recently. Buffing spells are much more useful when 1. The party is going to encounter a lot of not terribly threatening encounters. Bull's strengthing the fighter makes a huge difference. 2. When combats are challenging but short in duration, known of in advance (i.e. we're going into a cave with something in it) and the caster can't get off all their spells before the battle is over. In this case casting a spell in advance improves the odds of the spell slot having some impact. 3. When the future is unknown and varied. Most spells have relatively short durations, fixed effects and other limits. Especially for wizards buffing spells let them have a spell or two which is general in purpose and applicable in a number of different situations. (clearly a sorc would learn buffing spells for similar reasons though the mindset is different) When you know you'll be fighting packs of snow wolves fireballs a no brainer. (Partially because its D&D) The likelyhood of somebody hitting something with a weapon is always high. [/QUOTE]

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