Groen wrote:
Avoid a powerful sorcerer if you're not prepared. Just like a sorcerer should avoid a powerful melee class if not prepared.
If anything, final strike should be changed. I'm working on my first Sorcerer and can't imagine a time I'd ever use final strike.
Petrification already has negatives- like not being able to get the gear/coin.
People usually use that spell for malicious intents and purposes. At least in the past people made throw away Sorc's just to capitalize on the spell on someone they had a grudge with.
Frankly the spell has no place in the game, I see little to no point in a game environment to have such a spell that will more than likely never be used by a character, waste of a spell slot.