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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7211954" data-attributes="member: 37579">What's the "acceptable margin"? Who determines that?Balance it terms of what? DPR? Options? Flavour? Number of players? WotC seems to be judging things based on player satisfaction, and the socrerer seems just fine by that metric.I'm not opposed to new spells. There have been a restrained amount so far. But I don't think setting out to make new elemental spells solely to add new elemental spells is the best design.We don't need spells created by a check-list. But, really, it's super easy to change the damage type of spells. Scorching ray becomes chilling ray for your frost themed sorcerer. And there's no shortage of new spells on the DMsGuild.  It's about the sorcerer because a vocal minority of posters here want the sorcerer tweaked. The quest is, why not the other classes as well? If you're going to revise other classes, why not give them all a touch-up? If you're going to give one class new toys, you should give all the classes new toys. Contrarily, I'd say arguing that because the game will eventually be revised we should just revise now falls flat. The game will almost certainly be revised again. Either for a revised 5th Edition or a 6th Edition. So that's a good reason not to revise now, and keep the game as stable as possible for as long as possible. Don't make more changes than absolutely necessary.</blockquote>