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Is blight essentially better than fireball? It does way more damage at higher spell slots (as 8d8 is better than 9d6), but as a wizard necromancer, would more damage and grim harvest be better than 120 feet more range, area damage, and ignition of flammable objects?

 Nothing is better than fireball, theres just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

 One could argue that Wish is better, but yeah, fireball is amazing.

 You can cast wish? Just cast a ninth level fireball instead. 

 Or meteor swarm. It's fireball, but 4 of them!

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Wanna know what would be crazy. If fireball could crit.

 I make it so that if the enemy rolls a nat 1 on the save, it's basically a crit

seems more harmful to your companions in a close-quarters brawl or that kind of fight.

Can any Genie patroned warlock use this spell, or must it be only the Efreeti?  It's unclear. The book seems to suggest that you need to stay in your Genie's domain's swim lane when offered additional spells, but D&D Beyond allows you add it as a 3rd level spell even if you're not an Efreeti Warlock. (e.g., I'm a Djinni Warlock but it becomes available to me in D&D Beyond when I get access to 3rd level spells and I've used it successfully).  

Fireball is great because not only do you kill all the enemies and make your DM mad, but you can hurt that annoying player in your party, too!

Question, let's say an enemy spellcaster casts Fireball, could a player cast Catapult on the "bright streak" that is produced by casting Fireball and send it back towards the enemy spellcaster? 

What keeps Conjure Animals in check is the fact, that you do not control what you summon. Otherwise, it would be crazy overpowered

What ye are missing is that it is fun to shoor people with a giant flame ball of fury and watch the chaos unfold as the battleground is consumed in flames, the enemies melt, and you just keep on going. TLDR: Its fun ta blow shit up

Fun idea, but no.

Fireball isn't an object. Use counterspell instead 

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I'm sure that the bat guano is an old, old component. 

But it does feel like a kind of subtle dad joke. Because this spell does bats**t crazy damage. Heyoooooooooo

 *snorts*

I mean, he has a point...

I dont care how big the room is, i cast fireball!

Who of you was gonna tell me that fireball requires what to me reads as a literal piece of heces

The Classic

? i got one that does 7d10...

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I see spells like this are highly regarded, but I keep going back to conjure animals, which if you summon 8 1/4 CR beasts, does huge damage EVERY round for one slot.  What am I missing?  We had a troublesome octopus type homemade mob, and our 8 wolves made short work of it over 2 rounds.

However in Conjure Animals, it says: 

You summon fey spirits that take the form of beasts and appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within range. Choose one of the following options for what appears:

• One beast of challenge rating 2 or lower
• Two beasts of challenge rating 1 or lower
• Four beasts of challenge rating 1/2 or lower
• Eight beasts of challenge rating 1/4 or lower 

And 

When you cast a spell like conjure woodland beings, does the spellcaster or the DM choose the creatures that are conjured? A number of spells in the game let you summon creatures. Conjure animals, conjure celestial, conjure minor elementals, and conjure woodland beings are just a few examples.

Some spells of this sort specify that the spellcaster chooses the creature conjured. For example, find familiar gives the caster a list of animals to choose from.

Other spells of this sort let the spellcaster choose from among several broad options. For example, conjure minor elementals offers four options. Here are the first two:

• One elemental of challenge rating 2 or lower
• Two elementals of challenge rating 1 or lower

The design intent for options like these is that the spellcaster chooses one of them, and then the DM decides what creatures appear that fit the chosen option. For example, if you pick the second option, the DM chooses the two elementals that have a challenge rating of 1 or lower.

It only provides a sample for the DM to choose from, it does not say that the player gets to choose.

i may be missing something, why are people talking about conjure animals in the fireball spell comments?

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Is blight essentially better than fireball? It does way more damage at higher spell slots (as 8d8 is better than 9d6), but as a wizard necromancer, would more damage and grim harvest be better than 120 feet more range, area damage, and ignition of flammable objects?

 Nothing is better than fireball, theres just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

just fireball

 One could argue that Wish is better, but yeah, fireball is amazing.

 You can cast wish? Just cast a ninth level fireball instead. 

 Or meteor swarm. It's fireball, but 4 of them!

 Or action surge meteor swarm with sorcerer 17 fighter 2 warlock 1, you get 8 whole fireballs!

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i may be missing something, why are people talking about conjure animals in the fireball spell comments?

 some guy said conjure animals is better than fireball and assumed 1: they can choose what creatures to summon 2: that they'll actually hit everything 3: the CR 1/4 beasts will survive longer than 5 seconds at T2 play, so that caused a long debate

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 Or action surge meteor swarm with sorcerer 17 fighter 2 warlock 1, you get 8 whole fireballs!

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I don't get the math on that multiclass. Meteor swarm doesn't qualify for twinned spell, and even with action surge, you'll only have one level 9 spell slot. I suppose you could cast 8th level fireball and meteor swarm instead though. 

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 Or action surge meteor swarm with sorcerer 17 fighter 2 warlock 1, you get 8 whole fireballs!

 ? 

I don't get the math on that multiclass. Meteor swarm doesn't qualify for twinned spell, and even with action surge, you'll only have one level 9 spell slot. I suppose you could cast 8th level fireball and meteor swarm instead though. 

Possibly this person has misunderstood how Warlock spell slots work and incorrectly believes that you'd have a 9th level Warlock spell slot in this scenario.