NOTpopejubal wrote on May 9
th, 2013 at 10:21am:
Artis have Shiradi and "Clerics have Shut The Fuck Up And Heal My Barbarian. You Don't Need To Have Any Of Your Own Fun."
I'm pretty sure that's WAI.
Uh-huh. I guess it all depends on how you read the destinies... I mean, hell, Wizards don't really have a destiny to speak of; Magister is a steaming pile of crap. Any ability which requires that you basically stand still in order to use it is worse than useless, and the DC-boosting aspects (to one school, FFS) are just platform soles to help meet the stupid "you must be this tall to ride" requirements for making spells land.
Draconic Incarnation, too, only has a couple of worthwhile abilities.
Artificers don't have anything Arti-flavoured, although even if they get one some day I can't see anything more useful than Shiradi happening for ranged Artis.
So we've got:
(Ranged) Artificers = Shiradi!
(Caster) Druids = Shiradi!
(Ranged) Rangers = Shiradi!
Sorcerors = Shiradi!
Wizards = Shiradi!
Agreed that the situation for Clerics is utterly miserable. But no, wait, if you want to actually participate you can just load up on un-meta'd ray spells and AoE's and take... SHIRADI! It even offers Wisdom increases!
So you see,
everything is absolutely fucking FINE, OK?