Zarlova's Theurge role card and arcane casters

[Khrojnos]

My girlfriend and I have just got to the end of AP3 where we get role cards. I really wanted to play with the theurge role. We are playing hybrid rules where you keep your S&S cards AND can swap them out for class deck cards if you wish.

I looked ahead at all the lovely spells to look forward to but there aren't any arcane only spells in adventure deck 4 or 5; combined with the lack of arcane spells in deck 1, 2 and 3 is making me rethink picking up this role.

In ROTR we had lightning bolt and disintegrate which were arcane only. So arcane casters did more damage but couldn't heal. In SS arcane seems to be straight up worse.

[isaic16]

Frozen Orb from AD3 is the best Arcane attack I can think of off the top of my head. I've only played deck 4 once, and haven't gotten to deck 5, so I can't say much there.

I think the issue is that the base characters in S&S includes only 1 primary Arcane caster, and 1 primary Divine caster, so they're a lot more even than it it was in RotR. Zarlova's Theurge ability will probably be substantially better in an adventure that comes with the Sorceror, Wizard, and/or Arcanist packed in with the set.

[Khrojnos]

Frozen orb may be the only arcane spell I'd actually take over a divine spell. The split between arcane and divine is much smaller than in RoTR.