Wizard or Sorcerer?

[Ashuran]

Hello everyone. Anyone here have played both and can give me advice on which has more unique interactions among chararcters and story? I got bored of my current run since been playing melee for the last 3.5 playthroughs and want to restart as a mage.

[Ironwu]

Both have their own advantages and play styles. Cannot say that one is 'better' than the other.

My advice would be to make yourself a sorcerer (probably want to multi-class) and play Gale as the Wizard (also Multi-Class). You would want to Multi-Class to get some of the missing benefits that having two spell casters would entail.

Good Luck and have fun on the play-through! :)

[Farsha]

Sorcerer has less spells, but can have stronger spells with metamagic.
Sorcerer is Charisma so he's better at talking.

Wizard has largest spell list, can learn spells from scrolls and change prepared spells at will.

Sorcerer is focused build, spells you choose are part of the build.
Wizard is Swiss army knife that can change spells to fit any situation.

Personally I prefer Sorcerer as a main character for Charisma and for bigger sense that he's a unique build.
But Gale /Wizard is great in any party and can fill any magical role you need.

[Moonbane]

Sorcerer, you will go broke with a wizard both needing to pay for scolls, then paying again to actually learn them.

[❃ Galiäna Krüger ❃]

Wizard

[Farsha]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

Sorcerer, you will go broke with a wizard both needing to pay for scolls, then paying again to actually learn them.

Most scrolls can be found in game and learning is not expensive.
There is excesive amount of resources in this game.
Those things are not a factor.

[Mork]

(act 1)

They both have a lot interactions about magic but if i was to resume the interactions i have seen, wizard is more about the overall knowledge of magic while sorcerer is more about the source and the power of magic.

[Davaretta]

It doesn't really matter, there is hardly any difference between classes in this game.

It's all dumbed down pew pew pseudo-D&D.

[Lord Honorius]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

Sorcerer, you will go broke with a wizard both needing to pay for scolls, then paying again to actually learn them.

Im at the last fight, bought every dye, alchemy ingredient, scroll and potion i came by since chapter 1 in case i need them. Learned all the spell possible with Gale and i have 27k gold. So no having a wizard dont make you broke.

[Chaosolous]

I found the Sorcerer's Meta Magics to be way more useful than having a Wizard. Despite the more utility the Wizard can have by knowing basically every spell.

When it comes to the combat though, I found more use in the Sorcerer.

[Hex]

Wizard is more versatile and with more skills. Sorcerer puts Wizard in the dumpster when it comes to raw power.

[smellibear]

Draconic sorc seems ot have a fair number of reactive dialogue choices but nothing that ever made a huge difference like being drow

[BeautifulFlowerField]

Play sorcerer since your party already gets a wizard by default, Sorcerer has more to do - smaller spell list doesn't matter when you only need 6-10 spells for the whole game.

[Kernest]

I just did the Foundry fight and boy was I glad I had a dozen Lightning damage scrolls on me...

Definitely a point in Wizards favour in my book, being able to adapt to any fight that you see coming.

But there are definitely perks in Sorcerers favour too, particularly being CHA based if you're thinking of the player character for that role.

[Ashuran]

Originally posted by Mork:

(act 1)

They both have a lot interactions about magic but if i was to resume the interactions i have seen, wizard is more about the overall knowledge of magic while sorcerer is more about the source and the power of magic.

ah ok. I thought sorcerers have a lot of unique interaction because of their unique hold on magic etc. But I guess this game does became a bit generic act 2 and beyond in terms of class specific interactions. I guess I might go wiz then since int proficiency seems to make the game more immersive with a boost to worldly skills like investigation, arcana etc. while charisma only useful in dialogues persuasion etc. Which with proper management of inspiration stacks can somewhat be mitigated.

[Ashuran]

Originally posted by BeautifulFlowerField:

Play sorcerer since your party already gets a wizard by default, Sorcerer has more to do - smaller spell list doesn't matter when you only need 6-10 spells for the whole game.

Agree. I thought of sorc because in all my playthrough I really also do only use a handful of spells lol.