One should note that firebolt used to generate a burning field by itself in the earliest phases of EA. That got removed because most of the community thought it did too much damage and did not incentivize the use of anything else, not to mention the burning effect AND the burning field basically meant that casters hit by it had to make *3* concentration checks for what was normally a single hit attack. Technically 5 because they'd take damage again at the start of their turn.
One should really be aware that whatever changes you make can potentially be used against you by enemies in this game too.
Speaking of classes being unfun to play:
Why Wizard is UnfunThere are a lot of reasons wizard feels unfun at the moment. If Firebolt gets buffed that much, no one would use Scorching Ray. There are non-cantrip spells that need love from the developer at the moment.
Yeah, one also needs to note that if Firebolt gets buffed, that automatically means a lot of other wizard spells need to get buffed too to justify their use to begin with. And then Larian would look at their encounter metrics and find that wizards are killing things too quickly, causing them to buff enemy HP slightly higher, and then we're right back at square one.
Like I've repeatedly said throughout these forums, balancing requires a multi-faceted approach, and it isn't nearly as simple as some people believe it is. The best way of suggesting what needs to be changed is to look at how they interact with the rest of the system first, and then make a judgement based on that.
