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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N0Man" data-source="post: 4774479" data-attributes="member: 64066">It does seem pretty strongly implied to me, based on the bolded stuff below..However, that's really neither here nor there.You sound rather sure of the fact that there is absolutely no possible good reason that WotC could possibly choose to balance the powers the way they have, so therefor it is an obvious case of "disorganized".I think your stand sounds quite presumptuous.  It's possible you are right, but I think it's possible there are good reasons for the choice.As it's pointed out many times already, you aren't likely to be replacing your level 25 power with a 29, but a lower level one.Secondly, this has happened in older D&D games too.  You may find a higher level spell that really close to being the same damage as a lower level spell.  One could easily dismiss it because of that, but then again the damage type might matter more than the damage probabilities, and having another similar effect might be useful as well.For example, are feats that affect Acid damage as numerous or as good as feats that affect Fire or Thunder damage?I can't say what their reasons are, I'm not going to assume that there possibly be a good reason simply because I don't know what their reason is.</blockquote>