Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
You are conflating laborious with complexity. Having to take a long time to pick 2 spells once, is not complex. It's just laborious. It's a once and done selection.Yeah, the are. When you level, you get two spells from the LARGEST BY FAR spell list if you are a wizard.
The cleric on the other hand has to go through their entire spell selection far more often to adjust to changing in-fiction circumstances. That's laborious AND complexity, since they need to decide those spells on their ability to identify current and potential issues based on what is going on in the game and clues as to what might come up soon.
Except that it's one and done. You do it before play begins and you have your 6 spells to pick from. The cleric has to do it on day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4...........day 118......day 137317. It never ends for the cleric. They are frequently going through their entire spell list to see what might apply to current or potentially up coming in-fiction circumstances.Even at 1st level, you pick 6 out of something like 40+ 1st level spells!?! Still more than double the cleric list even if you are only using the PHB. Meanwhile, the cleric picks 4 or 5 out of 15.
Which again is laborious, but not complexity.But wizards are known for utility as well as buffs, direct damage, and AoE damage. A well-equipped wizard has to think long and hard about what spells to gain when they level up because they cannot just replace a bad choice on a long rest.
Fair enough. We aren't going to agree.If you can't agree with that still, fine, but you aren't going to convince me that wizards have it easier when it comes to spell selection over clerics.