This is interesting, personally I prefer playing a Wizard because there are so many Intelligence checks in the game - it really opens a lot of doors and allows you to win a lot of proficiency stuff - which leads to a lot of additional powerful stuff/abilities - without "save scumming".
Although so far it feels like Evocation is the only really powerful subclass of the wizard classes.
Then again, the entire game needs work, bugfixes and balancing so we will have to wait to see what Larian comes up with over the next 6 months to a year.
No there actually arent. Theres maybe at most 10% of the intelligence checks as there are CHA ones, and none of them are ever important.
Literally the main reason no one wants to play a Wizard is because yes INT is a useless stat.
I wasn't talking about charisma checks and Charisma and Intelligence checks I have not seen as interchangeable generally. I have a "face" person that deals with Charisma checks and a Wizard for the intelligence stuff - which there is a lot of. The only class that really prioritizes intelligence in a sea of hot, strong, and dumb companions...
There are also spells you just can't get as a sorcerer such as Curriculum of Strategy: Artistry of War and Dethrone, not to mention the flexibility of the spell list in general so grabbing all those ritual spells is a real boon to the party and costs you nothing.
I get that sorcerers do more damage, they are very bursty - but I don't think it's all that important if you know what you are doing as a wizard.
And really people have different playstyles - I very much enjoy the Wizard playstyle, with its focus on understanding and being kind of a spell nerd. You enjoy the burstiness of the Sorcerer and the forceful personality that lets you get away with all kinds of Charisma checks.
I still think you should take a moment and try to understand why 5e is the way it is and how the systems work. It's what I did. I didn't want to come off as that curmudgeonly old man shouting at the youngsters about how the "old system was better". Such a cliche.
