Specialist Wizards should get 1 free concentration for their school of choice. This way a Conjurer, for example, could cast Evard's Black Tentacles (free concentration) and then buff a melee character with Haste or envelop everyone caught in the tentacles via Cloudkill (Haste/Cloudkill expend the 1 concentration everyone has).
Well, right now the wizards are generally rather shitty as pure casters compared with Sorceres in BG3.
A lot of cheese here. I don't think stacking Exapanded Arsenal is intentional. For that matter, I don't think Evil Eye stacking is intentional.
Abundant spells are worthless on Nenio, because when properly built she will be reliably disabling even the hardest unfair encounters with one spell and you already get more than enough spells in chapter 3:
As a DC caster, Nenio should be using her Mythic Feats to stack 5 Expanded Arsenals for 5 different schools and her Mythic Abilities to get school-specific synergy (e.g. best Jokes for Enchantment, Corruptor for Conjuration) and Favorite Metamagics.
Sorcerers already get metamagics which wizards for some retarded reason do not. Sorcerers can already use twin spell metamagic to cast Haste on two targets. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?
It just werks.
Honestly i really disliked Concentration. It was so limiting to play as Druid and most buff were simply not worth casting.
I said PNP
And yet Wizards are still much stronger
Can you elaborate on why Haste in particular seems so great? If we're talking 5e, it's +2 to AC, which is nice, and an extra weapon attack, which is also nice. But neither seems like a must-have.
It's good when you have a balanced party with a dedicated damage dealer like a Champion with a two-hander or a Paladin.
+2 to ac and an extra attack and also more movement. Makes already good frontliners very good.
In BG3, its also another Action that can be used for a 2nd spell/ability in a round.
Yeah, it's no doubt useful, but doesn't seem like something you would always pick 100% of the time. There are many other concentration spells that can prove better, depending kn the circumstance
Then that's Larian going against RAW
Keyword: can, but not guaranteed. Haste always works, always provides a massive benefit with a party composition that has a dedicated melee damage dealer. Even for casters it's extremely useful as they can haste and throw more damage spells per round (I played BG3 on launch on tactician and have no idea what changes Larian have introduced in their newest updates). Stacking spell DC to a point where you beat enemy saves 95% of the time is non-trivial in 5e due to the "bounded accuracy" design philosophy, although BG3 has very good itemization for DC casters. Still, even if you can reach 95% success rate on your disabling spells, you still get extra roadblocks like legendary wards. Meanwhile: Haste just works. Always.
But if they can be better, then it's not true that "Niche concentration spells that could be useful in certain tactical scenarios become useless since they simply cannot compete with the top general purpose ones like Haste." It's not like you can only have one conc spell in your spell list
That was in reference to the "many cases" mentioned in the previous sentence of the same post. Other concentration spells can be better in particular tactical scenarios, but there has to be a very strong reason to make them objectively superior or at least competitive and that is a problem when competing against a universally useful spell that provides amazing benefit.
That's the whole point. Buffs should not be free power, if they are then there's no reason not to use them and they are too OP. Buffs then become ticking a checklist before combat starts rather than something with tactical consideration. If buffs have a cost and there are reasons not to use them then there would actually be depth and meaning in the use of buffs.
But he is right - not having a cost means this choice is superior to any other. It's like having a free move: why would you not want it? And how do you provide something of equal value to make this a choice and not a no-brainer? In order to make builds interesting, they have to offer something, instead of being noob traps.
1 season pass, 2 DLCs, and more are not planned
Any plans for an enhanced edition once you finish with the season pass then?
