Temperans wrote:
Wizard needs massive upgrades all around:
* Skills the same as other casters.
I feel like they could take it or leave it, they already get a bunch from being int based, after all.
I mean, shoot, spare a thought for the sorcerers, they get 3 or 4 trained if they don't add anything to int.
How about giving them an extra skill determined by their school
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* Reintroduction of prepared metamagic.
Hard disagree. Prepared metamagic wasn't particularly fun, and made everything a lot harder. Plus I'm pretty sure 2e wants to limit the advantages you get from being a system master, and I feel like that be harmful to that goal.
I don't fully recall prepared metamagic honestly but I would like to see more metamagic options but without getting as out of hand as they did in 1st edition
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* Upgrades to existing school abilities.
Agree.
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* More feats period (seriously, they have given wizards so few feats).
Totally agree on this in particular it's annoying that there so little that differentiates the Arcane Schools choice. You get one extra spell and a couple of often rather lackluster Focus spells but nothing in the way of feats so often your best choice is to take a Universalist just for extra bonded spell.
And more interesting feats. I'd like if the class feats they get can stand on their own in regards to flavor.
I myself having literally been working on feats for the Schools and Thesis's (VERY Slowly unfortunately) with the thought of putting it up on Pathfinder Infinite
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* More archetypes that actually care about Int and work with Wizard's proficiency. Way too many are more focused on literally any other class. (Only Con gets less love).
Would be nice.
What also be nice is if you had some Archetypes that helped open up the availability of weapons and armor (keep it simple you don't have give full access to all martial weapons maybe gain to one to three specific weapons/weapon types and maybe gain access to light and or medium armor. Presently it's Mauler for Two Handed Simple and Martial weapons and Sentinel for Light and Medium and nothing else outside the Fighter for weapons and the Champion for armor access in the main classes archetypes. Where as every one of casting classes archetypes the spell and you can even gain from a fair number of non main class archetypes.
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* More poaching of other classes. If all other casters are going to get feats that let them take spells from any list, why are Wizards being left out when their thing is studying magic?
Yeah. Call a feat "elective studies" or something and let them pick from a handful of spells from other spell lists.
Personally this isn't as much of an issue for me but I can your argument for it.
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* Rebalance Thesis because right now some are clearly way too weak. Not to mention that Spell Substitution should had been either a feature or a feat if wizards had actual features.
This really comes back to the issue with a lack of feats that truly differentiate. As an example I can see a set of feats for the Transmutation School Wizard having similar options like the Wild Shape Druid in that they could stay in a Battle Shape for much longer duration etc
I like spell substitution as a thesis. But a lot of them might need a boost, that's true.
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* Related to more feat, more metamagics and way to modify said metamagic. As well as ways to modify spells period.
Seconding more metamagics.
See my previous comments
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* If spontaneous casters are going to get ways to get prepared spells, Wizards should have ways to get spontaneous spells.
WHY??
Eh... Wizards...
Apologies for any formatting issues I'm doing this on my phone.