I’m always more excited about Hypnotic Pattern and Fly

sorry, this is absolutely awful logic.

Damage is what you want in literally any fight, it doesn't matter if it kills the enemies or not.

The reality is that a lot of fights in DnD will be up against 5+ enemies (usually more in my experience).

A fireball on top of all of them let's say just 5, and it's an average fireball doing 20 or so damage. that's 100 damage for a third level slot.

It gets a lot more insane than that though. Sometimes you have a huge mob of people, our evocation wizard dropped a 4th level fireball in a room full of enemies we walked into when infiltrating a cult and did 365 damage in total. It's useful for almost every fight you'll ever be in.

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