Which one is better at Epic Levels - Wizard or Sorcerer

[gfunk]

Hey Pax. How about showing some tact?

This is a friendly board. Your thinly veiled insults are not appreciated.

 

[James McMurray]

I prefer wizards myself. With sorcerers you are (mostly) stuck with what spells you chose. With wizards, if you find yourself neeing to fight something that can only be hit by some very esoteri spells (such as golems or demiliches) then youll just be able to run out, buy a few scrools to scribe, and then memorize away.

While autoquicken help sorcerers immensely, it lo require you to sit through several levels with the otherwise useless quicken spell feat, or to use yet another of your precious few feats on Arcane Preparation. Plus, you have o be kind of up there in the epic levels for it to really start mattering (level 27 at a minimum).

IMO, versatility = good, stuck with your choices = bad.

That can partially be mitigated though if your campaign style is fairly homogenous. If most of your sessions involve fighting, then the lack of a large selection of noncombat spells is't going to be that big of a hit to you.

 

[James McMurray]

Any spell which is, say, 23 levels below your ECL, is probably not going to be terribly useful.

Unless you're chapechnging into a spellweaver with Girallon's Blessing to cast 10 magic missiles in a single round.

 

[Pax]

Hey Pax. How about showing some tact?

This is a friendly board. Your thinly veiled insults are not appreciated.

Odd. I didn't MAKE any thinly-veiled insults, to you or anyone -- except this one: perhaps you should check your ego at the door?

And that's the last I'll say on the matter.

 

[Pax]

James: and, outside of the Exodus, there'd be nothign to prevent your opponent form shapechanging into a Force Dragon, rendering himself immune to said Magic Missile. ^_^

 

[ciaran00]

I believe the ELH suggests using Wis or Cha for epic spell determinations for Cleric-types and Sorcerors. I think it's a fair modification since the focus on Wizard-friendly stat for the purpose is arbitrary anyway.

ciaran

 

[James McMurray]

James: and, outside of the Exodus, there'd be nothign to prevent your opponent form shapechanging into a Force Dragon, rendering himself immune to said Magic Missile. ^_^

There would be in the campaigns I play in and run. We're a bit more stringent on what constitutes being familiar enough with a form in order to shapechange into it. And of course, not all of your foes will have access to Shapechange, even at epic levels.

And even so, if your foe is a Force dragon via shapechange, you don't use that the MIRVed MMs gambit until after the quickened Disjoin.

 

[gfunk]

Odd. I didn't MAKE any thinly-veiled insults, to you or anyone -- except this one: perhaps you should check your ego at the door?

And that's the last I'll say on the matter.

Okay Pax, WHATEVER YOU SAY!

^_^ (Oh lordy, I can make funny faces too!)