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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AngryPurpleCyclops" data-source="post: 4695397" data-attributes="member: 82732">Depends on how you distribute your stats.  I made an eladrin staff wizard with 16-14-13-13-12-8, this yielded:18 Int*14 Con13 Wis13 Cha14 Dex*08 Str* after racial adjustmentI don't think I hosed my character that much by spreading my stats a little thin and I pumped Wis and Int at level 4 and plan on hitting Con and Int at level 8.  I don't have thunderwave chosen (I might have wanted higher wisdom if I had) and I'm not using the orb powers so only having +1 wisdom mod until level 4 wasn't a significant problem.  The 14 dex is a waste partly created by my racial ability but it will allow me (given the +1 to all stat raise at level 11) to take arcane reach as a feat at level 11.  The 13 in cha gave me the option to make my wizard a fire wizard and take astral fire else I likely would have sacrificed Cha and taken a 14 in wisdom to start.  This was a thematic choice and not optimal but the loss of +1 wis wasn't significant to my pc other than possibly getting hit by a will attack here or there I could have avoided. Astral fire on the other hand probably makes a lot bigger difference over the life of my pc given the number of fire based powers I use: scorching, burning hands, sphere, fireshroud.  I don't think the elemental feats are "out of reach" but some of them are certainly more painful to aquire than others.  Burning blizzard is obviously the easiest for a mage and astral fire probably being the most difficult for any race other than eladrin likely to play a mage (maybe a tiefling has the same chance by reversing cha and dex).</blockquote>

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