Quote Originally Posted by sephiroth1084 View Post
It's been a while since I've leveled a caster, but at lvl 8 now on my TR'ed wizard, I'm generally pretty happy if I can fireball a room, kill 2 or 3 mobs and mop up the remaining ones with some melee or cheaper blasting (free MM from past life, or a wand). I know that in most cases I'd much rather deal with fewer monsters after a single cast most of the time than the occasional room clear, despite the incredible satisfaction that comes with clearing a whole room with one cast.
That's fine at 8, but at 14 or 17, wands and melee don't work too well to polish off monsters (which are also likely to be considerably more dangerous too).

I don't mind kiting six Stormcleave giants waiting for Cone of Cold to come off cooldown - kiting five Ghaele Eladrin and one Bralani Sorceror is a little more awkward. For this reason I would currently approach a room in Running with the Devils with a DBF, then if the DBF didn't crit, a Fireball, then if that didn't crit, whatever third spell would finish them off, whereas in Stormcleave (if I decided to approach the quest in nuking mode) I'd be fine to throw a Cone of Cold then use other spells to clean up.