Quote Originally Posted by MrWizard View Post
If he assumes the level 5 fighter has UMD and cash to blur and haste himself, then the caster would have an even easier time.
Yeah ... the point I was trying to make is that toons should be capable of surviving level 9 content without extensive expenditures of consumables. Now, I generally agree that not buffing at all (on principle) is bad<tm>.

However, the same goes the other way: casters too have limited resources. There is nothing wrong with asking for buffs, but there are also people who will take it beyond sense or reason.

Case in point: expecting the occasional heal from a cleric/fvs, a haste every now and then from either bard or arcane and perhaps some more extensive buffs before tough/boss fights is reasonable. Asking for basically two players following you (the proverbial you) around at all times to constantly baby-sit, wand-whip and buff you from hjeals to resists, blurs, displacements and haste is maybe taking it a bit too far.