Sure, the wizard can do more amazing and effective stuff than the warrior can, but the warrior can do his less impressive things indefinitely! That makes up for it, right?. These fixes can result in or from some pretty strange logic and situations. The solution is rarely to power up warriors while only slightly depowering wizards generally because, at least in the West, there's an expectation that the warrior be a Badass Normal that you can more easily imagine that you could become with enough effort. Others involve sanity and corruption systems, or making the casting of a spell a tactically debilitating act.Īs you can imagine, players who specifically chose wizards and worked hard to keep them alive with the promise of great power for their effort can be.upset by this game balancing Nerfing, unless ( and sometimes especially because) it also beefs up wizards at low levels. Other restrictions also exist a common one is simply to make the wizard Squishy. Preventing casting spells while wearing armour is another, though this is often partially countered by providing a range of protective magics that work much like normal armour only better, but of course for a limited time.
Both of these serve to cap how often a wizard can cast spells. These include restrictions on magic itself, the two classic examples being the Mana mechanic or the even more restrictive Vancian Magic. However, if this results from a development mistake, or enough complaints convince the author/programmer to change things, there are ways to limit the awesomeness of wizards. The notion that a wizard (generally something of a brainy bookworm) may start out weaker than the Dumb Muscle, but surpass them entirely in the endgame, proving that knowledge is power that can modify the environment itself, thus making large muscles redundant in comparison? This account holds a lot of inherent appeal to them. Gamers, and by extension game designers, tend to be nerds by definition. Thirdly, there's more than a bit of Wish-Fulfillment here. In essence, the mages study under the promise of a dull and complex path with great profits at the end. Meanwhile, the Conans and Beowulfs have the run of the place, being able to both solo and group. Secondly, in such a setting, there may be dozens if not hundreds of small-time mystic dabblers, but they quickly thin in numbers, only to resurface as potent adventuring wizards, culminating in the classic mystic powerhouse like Gandalf or Elminster, or the Evil Sorcerer in the Evil Tower of Ominousness. Since warriors don't have magic, how is physical force supposed to beat, say, an intangible ghost or some supernatural baddie with the magical ability to ignore it? Basically, warriors can only be so fantastic, so even as they improve, those improvements mean less. They hit the limits of human (or near-human) ability and can't bend physics any farther. This isn't just a Sour Grapes complaint against Squishy Wizards or a lack of Competitive Balance throughout the game, but can be a deliberate thematic choice.įirst off, the idea that warriors hit a development ceiling at some point. Whether it's the game designers intentionally "making up" for lots of frailty for many levels, or a quirk that comes up during play, the wizard simply outpaces all but the most Min-Maxed and Munchkined out warriors. In the meantime, they are nearly defenseless in a fight. Wizards, on the other hand (especially young/low level ones), have no such easy shortcuts to massive magical power they have to study, find or invent spells, and discover magic items that aren't so powerful they cause them to go into a Superpower Meltdown. Magical weapons aren't required but can (usually) be used immediately and give amazing bonuses. The fighter just needs decent armor and a weapon, and with their marvelous Hit Points, they can get into the thick of things and do reasonably well. The divide is usually exacerbated by the ease with which a young warrior can go wading into combat compared to a novice mage. However, the trend reverses at higher levels, when the magic users gain a breadth of both versatility and pure power over simplistic hack and slash heroes.
Magic users gain power quadratically as they level up.Ī quirk some Video Game and especially Tabletop RPG game systems share is that melee classes are more powerful, versatile or useful at lower levels than casters or magic-using classes. Melee classes gain power at a linear rate as they level up.
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