It's funny, but for all the evo-bashing I'm seeing here, Treantmonk rated evocation green, and that was core only. Professor Q rates it blue, using all the other PF books.
As a highly regarded expert, it's good to see that these intellectual giants agree with me. It gives further weight to my assertion that evocation is a good specialty school, and that it can do more than just blast.
However, if you WANT to blast, it's the best.
It's funny, but for all the evo-bashing I'm seeing here, Treantmonk rated evocation green, and that was core only. Professor Q rates it blue, using all the other PF books.
As a highly regarded expert, it's good to see that these intellectual giants agree with me. It gives further weight to my assertion that evocation is a good specialty school, and that evokers can do more than just blast.
I love how flexible evocation is; and yes it can do more than blast, but even its blast spells shouldn't be underestimated;
Icy Prison can range from a disable spell to a deadly blast spell.
Cold Ice Strike is a spell with a 6th level saving throw, yet only takes a swift action to cast for very respectable amounts of damage.
The much maligned fireball can become a wonderfully flexible control spell if you're mindful to apply metamagic like rime (admixture + spontaneous casting through feats) or dazing spell.
It's great that evocation can do more than blast as all it's proponents are apt to mention, but it's also noteworthy that a few of the blasts are also good spells.
Crucify me. I actually see a Universalist as having a great deal of potential at the sacrifice of a mere one spell of each level 0-9, with a lot of options and I like their metamagic mastery and also I saw something(s) allowing them to swap out spells during the course of a day which to me is HUGE. As a wizard I want flexibility, the more the better because it's hard to always know exactly what's needed going in on a given day. That and without pages of spell knowledge, which are expensive, sorcerers seem to limited maybe even one-trick types.