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This is also how I liked to play my wizards. This just isn't an option now. The wizard doesn't have a good selection of buffs or debuffs, and the debuffs it does get are to hard to land, to the point I just gave up. It would have made sense that curriculum spells, cast from curriculum slots, would be more powerful. That should have been built into the chassis. You should be better at those arcane theses spells, any wizard can cast charm, but yours is more difficult to resist, and if it doesn't land it should remain uncast. If your thesis is spell shaping, they should be a free action, because it's what you specialize in. We are almost level 5, and I have had a single battle where my wizard made a difference. I don't need to compete as a fighter, but it would be great to be as valuable as a fighter. To land my spells as often as the fighters sword hits (who doesn't run out of sword juice). Is the wizard weaker? Not everyone agrees, but I think so. It certainly isn't as valuable a core class anymore.