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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9262788" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Because I know the statistics involved. Great spells really are taken more often. Consider the hand-wringing over silvery barbs. Which got huge press because of the various D&amp;D podcasts. Your casual dismissal of the intelligence and awareness of players isn't accurate, especially in this modern era of seventeen million guides online, and folks asking for guidance on Reddit, and thousands of hours of guides (some better, some worse) on Youtube.Telling people smart character building choices is literally a career choice now, for some people.....you do realize that most people are dramatically more online now than they were over twenty years ago, right?Like, simply because of smartphones and Youtube/Tiktok.Not anymore. Especially with the runaway success of Baldur's Gate 3, which will put character optimization into the minds of players all over the place.Er...fireball is actually the best damage spell of its spell level (at least for Wizard/Sorcerer), and in fact is almost as good as a spell a full level higher. Because the designers specifically made it overpowered relative to other damage spells of its level in order to encourage more people to take it. Fireball is, in fact, the standard by which other damage spells are judged in many, perhaps even most guidance online, because it is such a good AoE damage spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9262788, member: 6790260"] Because I know the statistics involved. Great spells really are taken more often. Consider the hand-wringing over [I]silvery barbs[/I]. Which got huge press because of the various D&D podcasts. Your casual dismissal of the intelligence and awareness of players isn't accurate, [I]especially[/I] in this modern era of seventeen million guides online, and folks asking for guidance on Reddit, and thousands of hours of guides (some better, some worse) on Youtube. Telling people smart character building choices is literally a career choice now, for some people. ....you [I]do[/I] realize that most people are dramatically more online now than they were [I]over twenty years ago[/I], right? Like, simply because of smartphones and Youtube/Tiktok. Not anymore. [I]Especially[/I] with the runaway success of Baldur's Gate 3, which will put character optimization into the minds of players all over the place. Er...[I]fireball[/I] is actually the best damage spell of its spell level (at least for Wizard/Sorcerer), and in fact is almost as good as a spell a full level higher. Because the designers specifically made it overpowered relative to other damage spells of its level in order to encourage more people to take it. [I]Fireball[/I] is, in fact, the standard by which other damage spells are judged in many, perhaps even most guidance online, [I]because[/I] it is such a good AoE damage spell. [/QUOTE]

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