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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8552935" data-attributes="member: 23751">The thing with those AOEs is that unless the caster is an evoker, they are fairly highly limited by the rest of the party.  The wizard's player can't expect everyone else to just sit there and wait for him to AOE before they do stuff, and the monsters will be moving as well, so it's pretty likely that the enemy and party will be intermixed and that meteor swarm or fireball will just sit there uncast. Another thing to consider is that for every juicy combat spell cast, the wizard is less effective at the out of combat shenanigans that is supposed to be his bailiwick.</blockquote>