Help me understand why spell durations are reduced.

[Draebor]

This has kinda been bugging me for a while now... My main char is a lvl 15 sorcerer and the best persistent defense spells I can use are Greater Stoneskin and Ghostly Visage. Even thought I can cast Shadow Shield and Ethereal Visage and True Seeing, etc... which (with the exception of EV) all list their duration as 1 turn/lvl, I get MAYBE 5 rounds out of them.

What I'm trying to understand here is why the spell durations are limited. My cleric friend doesn't seem to have the same problem... most of his standard spiffs last till he needs to rest, not to mention the fact that he can wear REAL armor and use REAL weapons.

It just seems like the Sorcerer class has been severely crippled so far in the beta... no familiars, no good defense spells, good LUCK taking down anything with decent magic resistance... <whine>why is that?</whine>

[Ragefist]

1) Your cleric friend either a) rests a lot, or b) has extended versions of his spells active.

2) Most buff spells have had their durations monkeyed with, there is a post somewhere that has a general reduction schema posted.

3) Take extend spell and you'll be a much happier camper, ur buffs will last longer, and you'll regain ur sexual desire, AND the other kids will stop making fun of you in school (note -- not all the aforementioned actions will occur).

4) Sorcs aren't crippled, lots of nasty ones running round that I have seen. If you want to wear armor you can take a pali level and then take still spell, working toward auto still spell later, to get by the spell failure problem.

5) WTF are you whining about using REAL weapons? You're an arcane spell caster, a noble minded mentally elite mofo who doesn't even like getting your dainties dirty; thus, you cast bigby and igm and then laugh as things far away die.

6) There is no 6 . . . . haha, made you look!

[Draebor]

okay, rebuff accepted... good suggestion about using spell extension. I still want to know, however, just WHY the durations were reduced. "TO THE FORUM SEARCH FUNCTION!"

Is this post sufficiently devoid of whining?