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Its in my recent thread / video I made where I respecced my sorc spells to include hold person and monster.

Cast a level 5 heightened hold person on the githyanki ambush, 65% > 88% on the main boss, 90% > 99% on the normal mobs.

Wizard and divine casters will never be able to do that.

Ok so you mention specializations yes. Wizard specializations in BG3 don't even improve spell DC like they did in all previous games, don't know if thats a 5e rules thing or not.

So DC casting or damage spell casting, sorcs do everything better.

Oh but look, wizards are the most versatile, they can learn all the spells ...

Memorize a scroll, 100+ gold based on scroll level. Talk to Withers with my sorc, 100 gold any time I want to change all my spells.

Sorcerers are the most versatile and if you actually want your spells to work.

So my current loadout for spells is:

Level 1 - Magic Missile, Shield, Ray of Sickness from green dragon (I removed chromatic orb because I never used it over twinned ray of sickness for green dragon sorc)
Level 2 - Scorching Ray, Hold Person
Level 3 - Fireball, Counterspell, Blink (removed lightning bolt because I never needed to use it over fireball)
Level 4 - Ice Storm, Wall of Fire
Level 5 - Cloudkill, Hold Monster.

Metamagics - Twinned, Quicken, Heighten, and whichever last one thats never used, currently distant spell because eh it might come in handy sometime.

And still MM and Scorching Ray might be swappable to other stuff.

All the damage cantrips - EB from Spell Sniper, Fire Bolt, Shocking Grasp, Ray of Frost, Acid Splash, Poison Spray, Bone Chill

So in the rare case enemies are immune / resistant to both poison and fire, I can just use whichever cantrip. Level 12 feat I'm planning on warcaster or whatever its called for advantage on concentration and shocking grasp opportunity attacks.

Currently also using Jaheira as a spore druid, so I have 2x cloudkill and also 2x wall of fire / ice storm as needed. Stuff just melts. When not needed Jaheira can also tank and melee or shapeshift, but I like her more for the extra damage spells.

I could also drop spell sniper and take 2 levels of warlock for stronger EB, but I want to wait and see if that means losing level 6 spells and if I really need any of those as opposed to just using the level 6 slot for cloudkill as well.