That’s some bullshit, IWD1,2 has very strong casters that can solo HoF, strongest class in PoE 1 is priest, a caster. They realize casters scales much better in poe 1 so they nerfed them a bit in 2, But they are still super strong in PoE2, as the first one to finish all god challenges using a priest.
Completely wrong.
IWD:EE has stronger casters. Vanilla IWD has very lackluster casters. With very lackluster spells. You can learn tier 9 spells? Yep. But only the most lackluster ones. No stop time, no wish, no chain contingency, etc. HoW added FEW powerful high level spells like Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting but that is it. Enhanced Edition implemented BG2 spells on IWD and made spellcasting far better;
And PoE, did you played PoE 1 as a wizard? Not only you need high strength to throw a hotter fireball but also every spell is just a ULTRA NERFED version of 3.5e. Maura's Writhing Tentacles is just a ULTRA NERFED version of black tentacles(which he also destroyed on NWN2), Malignant Cloud is just a ultra weaker version of cloudkill with far smaller duration(which again, he also destroyed on NWN2)
On BG2:SoA, when I was playing as a solo necromancer on legacy of bhaal difficulty, I could easily solo the beholders and mindflayers with animate dead + cloudkill. On PFKM this is the best mid level combo too. And in every sawyer game, the coolest spells are worthless. No one pick any wizard specialization on PoE2 except evoker.
Some people criticize Starfinder's technomancer by being far weaker than D&D/Pathfinder casters but Starfinder technomancer is pretty cool. His Chain surge can dish 13d12 damage up to 10 targets and make then electrical circuits stop functioning which is devastating against droids. He can also teleport between planets, create an junkbot army, disintegrate enemies and even terraform an planet.
-------------
Sadly, Larian apparently wanna make sure that every wizard will gonna be an evoker and a very ineffective evoker BTW.
