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Message: <blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8473942" data-attributes="member: 6937590">I do!I have now taken the survey 8 times and catalogued every spell I was asked about. (I didn't answer any questions except #1 on surveys 2-8 because I wanted to avoid biasing their... convenience sample)The survey asks about every spell in the PHB, all 361 of them.Each survey taker, though, "only" rates 180 spells in randomly selected alphabetical blocks of 10 (or 181 if your survey includes the 11 spell block with zone of truth)....Which makes me sad. I thought I would discover the underlying secrets of the universe via this exercise. But, unfortunately, WotC isn't doing anything particularly clever. It's just a brute force Likert scale of everything, which they--incorrectly it seems--thought they could get a better response rate on by only giving respondents half of the PHB spells to rate.Since what WotC seems to want is the general community feeling about every spell, I don't think there's a significantly better way for them to construct their questions. They don't actually care why any individual dislikes this or that spell; the D&D community is inevitably fractious and disagreeable about all questions posed to it (nevermind that things like fireball are deliberately overtuned--because overpowered things can be fun). WotC are just trying to identify what spells they need to take action on. From their point of view, a 1-6 yea/nay is the most helpful thing we can give them.</blockquote>

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