Re: firebolt
Cantrips are designed to be a caster's bread and butter (especially at lower levels), and you would pull out higher level spells when they are going to be really impactful because you only get a few uses each day. By filling the world with scrolls and removing all consequences from long resting, Larian has essentially removed the cost from casting higher level spells because those few spell slots no longer have to last you through a full day's worth of encounters. If that cost is removed from leveled spells, of course they're going to be better than cantrips. The issue isn't that cantrips are too weak, it's that house rules have turned the really strong fancy stuff into your bread and butter. Remove scrolls and remove the possibility of getting a full night's rest after every 24 second battle and balance is going to improve substantially.
This. The stupid rest after every combat system that is being encouraged right now is the reason cantrips seem "weak."
