They can do everything kill stuff, charm stuff, solve problems, Will expect you to cover as many knowledge skills as possible, leaving many Get the standard two skills, which is difficult considering that your party Wizards also get no armor, so it’sĮither Mage Armor or nothing for the vast majority of wizards. Proficiencies: Wizard’s weapons are pitiful,īut can be easily replaced by cantrips. Need, so you can afford a decent Constitution score.Īnd proficiency in Wisdom saves won’t help much if your Wisdom is terrible. Fortunately Intelligence is the only ability which Wizards strictly Hit Points: d6 hit points is the lowest in Optional Class Features are detailed below under Optional Class Features. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. RPGBOT is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Keep in mind that the state of the meta periodically changes as new source materials are released and this article will be updating accordingly as time allows. The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. I also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and I can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. I will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, even if it is my own, because I can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks, which is simple to understand and easy to read at a glance.
I’ll tell anyone who asks that the Wizard is my favorite class, and that has been the case since early in my career with Dungeons and Dragons. There are exceptions to this rule (bladesingers can achieve some of the highest AC in the game without the aid of magic items), but they are few in number. Staying alive as a wizard can be very difficult, and in most cases requires a part of sturdy allies willing to protect you from harm. Wizards are among the least-durable characters in the game, having no armor proficiencies, poor saving throws, and the lowest hit dice available. If you are prone to analysis paralysis, the wizard is a waking nightmare. Managing a spellbook is a complex, and unlike clerics and druids who can select from a vast spell list after every long rest, you need to hoard newly-learned spells to expand your capabilities, sometimes at great expense, so learning new spells may be a gamble, costing precious gold for a spell which you may never use. Wizards get very few actual class/subclass features, but spellcasting fills in the gaps. Most of this complexity is buried in the Wizard’s spellcasting. However, with that incredible breadth of capability comes both complexity and risk. You may think, “but wait, isn’t that every role?”. Depending on your spells and potentially your skills, you can also serve as a Defender, Face, Healer (though it’s difficult), and Scout. However, in a typical party the Wizard’s primary functions are as a Blaster, Controller, Librarian, Support caster, Striker, and Utility Caster. A clever Wizard could even find a way to heal their allies and replace a Cleric.īecause Wizards can do so much so well, their roles are numerous and varied. A Wizard with a summoned pet can replace a fighter (at least temporarily). A Wizard with Invisibility is as stealthy as a Rogue. A Wizard with a comprehensive spellbook can do essentially anything in the game, often as well as or better than a non-magical character who is built to do that thing. The Wizard is the iconic arcane spellcaster, capable of doing all manner of fantastic tricks, and generally limited only by their spellbook and their spell slots.
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