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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 4986268" data-attributes="member: 61155">Also, an anecdote, since I saw someone commenting earlier in this thread (or a related one) about how sad it was that wizards no longer ever chose "Fireball": I was playing a mid-heroic LFR game last week, and the final battle consisted of us getting the drop on the bad guys - finding them holed up in a warehouse. Our wizard kicked the door in, and tossed a fireball right into the middle of the room to tremendous effect. The spell gets passed over quite a bit in optimization forums and the like because it doesn't really do much other than a bit of damage - but the real strength, especially at level 5, is that it is simply an enormous area. Half the enemies never got to act that fight, in large part because of the wizard simply scorching the earth before they ever got to go. A lot of folks overlook that, but filling a room with fire and roasting everyone in it is just as viable a tactic now as in previous editions, and that moment in the LFR game felt just as classic as chucking a fireball into an enclosed room in my early days of playing D&D.</blockquote>