What DnD spells do you like?

[Occupant]

Favorite spells.

My favorite from the wizard list

Lev. 0. Prestidigitation. The ultimate cantrip. Clean, cook, dust corridors to cover your tracks, disguise your odor, makes it awesome.
Lev 1. Mage Armor
Lev 2. Scorching Ray (I use Arcane Study from PH2 and pack metamagic on it) second Rope trick. Never adventure without it.
Lev 3. It's a toss up between dispel magic and fly.
Lev 4. Scrying. I live for scrying. But I like Polymorph for that AC boost.
Lev 5. Wall of Force. For battlefield control. Fabricate, just because.
Lev 6. True Seeing and Dispel Magic, greater. Tons of cool spells.
Lev 7. Teleport Greater, Delayed Blast Fireball, later Reverse Gravity.
Lev 8. Mind Blank, Polymorph Any Object
Lev 9. Time stop, shapechange.

[Narf the Mouse]

Colour Spray, Wish. High power, both of them.

[Occupant]

Colour Spray, Wish. High power, both of them.

Sweet!

[Tom the Fanboy]

Prestidigitation and Mage Hand.

In the Forgotten Realms they have Launch Bolt and Launch Item, I really like those two as well.

When it gets to high levels I'm hugely fond of Wall of Force, especially back when the dome version could fit the whole party.

[Punstarr]

Disintegrate.

[Narf the Mouse]

Disintegrate is cheap. It's a 'Yoo dai!' spell.

[Punstarr]

But oh so powerful. We have a GM in D&D who likes to put us up against things 2-5 CRs above us.

[Occupant]

But oh so powerful. We have a GM in D&D who likes to put us up against things 2-5 CRs above us.

Two or three is fine. Four or five is not a level appropriate encounter. Call Shenanigans and point it out.

Edit: Wait. How big is your party?

[Narf the Mouse]

If they have to pull out disintegrate, probably not that larger than normal.

[Punstarr]

4 players.

[Xaq]

I have no qualms as a DM pulling out "CR-inappropriate" encounters, but that's only because I like to give the players moments when they clearly have to negotiate, bluff or run away... if the party can kill everything they encounter, the temptation is there to ALWAYS attack first and ask questions later. And that's boring as hell.

[Occupant]

Now you know. Always have a pop smoke and run spell...


My offensive spell strategy for a wiz. (summary)

Poor Reflex: Any blast um spell. (Giants...)
Poor Fort: Disintegrate and the like... (wiz killin')
Poor Will: Mind owning/wrecking spells... From dominate to feeblemind... (giants, and fighters and...)

Verses good saves and general use...
Scorching ray+ Feats Arcane Study (scorching ray, from PH2 lowers metamagic level costs by one), plus Energy Admixture Sonic, plus Empower, plus Maximize...

[LordofArcana]

I personally like the image spells because of just how much someone can do with them. The saves annoying, but being able to make a figment of "anything" lends itself to creativity very easily.