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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 253350" data-attributes="member: 545">Anything that screws with the ability of a spellcaster to engage at a comfortable range (line of sight) potentially shuts him down: fog, darkness, a well-placed wall, etc.  Those tactics can force the caster to risk melee in order to cast offensive spells.So LoS is one achilles heel of the wiz/sor.The other is raw HPs.  The sorceror can't be warded against every energy attack, every AoE, every arrow, every weird ambushing critter out there.  A couple unlucky pinpricks and he is one thwack or spell away from being dead, dead, dead.My conclusion is the minmax choices for a familiar are either a toad or a bat.  A toad increases HPs.  A bat can provide enough information through fog and darkness that you can adequately guess where to drop an AoE spell.</blockquote>