Yak Cast 4 “Way of the Yak”

Sorcerers cast spells faster than anyone else. No really, they do.

Favored Souls don’t. They also get 2nd level spells at level 4, not 5.

The complaint that this guy mentions is actually kind of valid. There aren’t really enough good spells in the game to make the wizards and clerics versatility really shine, at least at high levels. I wouldn’t say that this is a huge issue, but it definitely exists. It’s fixable easily enough by simply adding more cool spells to the game for the high levels and making sorcerers and favored souls make more hard choices.

More comments when I’m done listening.

The versatility is better at lower levels because there are more good spells. This is one reason why back in the day when the cap was 10 you almost never saw a sorcerer — the wizard to sorcerer ratio was probably 15 to 1.

These days, a high level sorcerer can carry most of those useful low level spells and most of the good high level ones, too. There’s still some call for versatility there, but is it better than having 3000+ SP instead of 2000, and casting twice as fast for free (sorcerers only)? Probably not. Like I said though, it’s easy enough to fix simply by adding more good spells so that sorcerers and favored souls have more hard choices to make at the end game.

Yeah, it’s not listed as a feat, it’s just an innate class ability. To see the difference, just roll up a quick throwaway sorcerer with magic missile or something.

The fast casting is one reason why warforged sorcerers are popular — super-fast Reconstruct spells for self healing is great!

They’re about double speed, roughly. Maybe a bit less, but the difference is quite significant.

Warforged self-healing with repair spells is good anytime. Throwing down hundreds of points of healing on yourself via Reconstruct at the upper end is incredibly handy. It’s still good with wizards too, they just do it slower.

High level clerics can heal warforged well enough…but the warforged + arcane caster idea is mainly awesome because it combines the spells of an arcane caster with the healing ability of the cleric (at least for yourself, anyway).