The title basically says it all. Between Arcane, Cleric, Druid, Bard, Witch, Summoner, Inquisitor, and Alchemist (I know its not quite spells but humor me), how would you rank them and why in that order? I am mostly curious about higher levels (after 10th level).
As I am a fan of battle control I would rank them as Arcane, Bard, Druid, Witch, Summoner, Alchemist, Cleric and Inquisitor.
no paladin?
It should be noted that all the classes that don't have the wizard/sor spell list have a lot more class features then a wizard so it sort of balances out (not really).
I find Paladin and Ranger's spell to be just filler. Nothing to get excited over at all.
1) Arcane
2) Witch
3) Druid (However the fact that they always get all spells available is a huge boon)
4) Cleric (The base list. Can however compensate much with domains. Also as with druid the whole spell list avaible always is a huge boon)
5) Summoner (keeps up until 7th-8th level with good spells lower level than wizard... Haste & Black Tentacles, but starts to fall behind after that...)
6) Bard (Some very good spells with lowered levels... Hideos Laughter & Heroism)
7) Magus (has access to hard arcane spells which will save the real wizards resourses... Haste & Fire Arrow... Also some nice Personals like Polymorph spells)
8) Alchemist (However the extracts are not as easy to use as real spells... however the infusions are the easies way to give personal buffs to warrior types)
9) Inquisitor
Well in fact I think that Arcane list is clearly the best. Then Witch, Druid & Cleric are hard to put in the order. Then Summoner has clearly stronger list than any of the rest, but falls behind in spell levels & his lists don't keep up (except with Summon Monsters which may be enough) with full casters. Then the rest are again very hard to put in the order.