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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dougan Axehammer" data-source="post: 3541685" data-attributes="member: 52186">IMO, all specialists wizards are weak compared to universal wizard.  All specializing does is grant you one extra spell per day for your chosen school and allows you to learn spells from that school a little more easily.  It does not increase your ability to cast them, or make your spells more powerful, and on top of that you have to choose a potentially valuable school to not learn spells from.  Specialists lack the flexibility that I find to be so powerful.  Personally, if you want to "specialize", be a universal wizard (either human, elf, or gnome) and select spell focus (and greater spell focus if human) for you first level feat.If I had to choose the weakest school (because of a campaign setting or something), I would choose necromancer.  It's not because the other schools can mimic necromancy, though.  Of all the schools, necromancy benefits the most from knowing spells in other schools.  For example, Detect Undead is a divination that can help the necromancer find minions to control.  Also imagine the effects to be had by combining a troop of undead with cloudkill or combining a stilled, silent enervation with gaseous form or minor image with fear.  But I wouldn't want to choose.Oh, and the weakest class to multiclass with a wizard is barbarian.  While you are raging, all your spellcasting becomes non-existent and you simply become a barbarian of whatever level.</blockquote>

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