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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9126563" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The Wizard is full of post-hoc justifications for what it has always been: the bizarre lovechild of a memelord sh--er, *trash*poster and a combat engineer.Fireball? Grenade. Sending? Telephone message. Grease? ...literally grease, it's exactly what it says on the tin. Sleep? Knockout gas. Prismatic spray? Flashbang. Etc. Just see the recent thread about how so many Wizard spells are actually Dad jokes given life as one-off magical effects.The reason the academia aspect doesn't matter (and never has) is that it's the fig-leaf excuse. It doesn't even rise to the level of Batman using his birth name as a mask to cover his activities--because at least Batman enjoys being a billionare playboy, hard-hitting near-rockstar executive, and megabucks philanthropist.Being an academic is, was, and for the time being will continue to be simply a paper-thin disguise for the thematic emptiness of the Wizard class. Even the 5e Fighter, which is already contentious for its paucity of flavor (some see this as a wonderful blank canvas, others as being constrained to unflavored oatmeal), has more inherent flavor and a better fit to its innate class fantasy than the Wizard does.The Wizard is the unadorned +5 weapon of classes. It has no flavor, but is objectively super strong. There's little to no reason to choose anything else except flavor, and you'll always have the awareness that you gave up legitimate superior function for (effectively) looking cool.</blockquote>

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