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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4568724" data-attributes="member: 22779">Are you honestly going to try to argue that 1e and 2e MU's didn't get fantastically powerful?  The fact that monsters had FAR fewer hit points and there were no caps on the damage that wizards could do meant that wizards could level armies by about 10th level.  Add to that the fact that magic resistance was not terribly common meant that direct damage was king.3e wizards get overly powerful, not so much from direct damage, but because they can just pump the party up to extreme levels and then overshadow every skill check.  Why bother with Diplomacy when Charm person is faster, far more likely to work and WAY more powerful?  Open Locks?  Knock.  Search for traps?  Unseen Servant or even Mage Hand.  When the wizard can stock up on scrolls and wands, it means that he almost never runs out of utility spells.</blockquote>