Originally Posted by
The Raging Rodian!
Not really. If, as we were discussing, Wizards in DDO had to memorize spells instead of casting on the fly the upside would be faster metamagics and equal casting time on regular spells. That's a 3.5 Wizard perk. They also should get specializations, which greatly narrows the gap in spells per day between Wizards and Sorcerers. And, as I already stated, there are also other balance benefits. There is a bigger picture here.
Problem being of course that we started out with spell points so we are kinda stuck with them.