The option to hide the higher-level versions of lower-level spells

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Charliecmorgan

• July 12, 2019 00:11

I have had several local players and several D&D Beyond Twitch members express grievances over not being able to turn off the option of showing higher-level versions of lower-level spells (i.e. Magic Missile at 9th level). We get the point of why this is there- to help give you the amount of dice you need to roll. The problem major casters (Wizards, Druids, etc.), is their prepared spell list gets cluttered quickly.

The easy option would be the preference to turn this on/off; a more complex variant could be a drop-down adjacent to the spell to show you the spells damage at higher levels, or list it under the spell's description in the side bar.

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  Joel Kain

  • July 12, 2019 02:29

  The spell scaling is something that, I feel, should be off by default. While it's a handy feature to have, the crowding in the listings isn't a very user-friendly default feature. Having it as a filter, however, would be great. Then, when a player needs to actually consider which upcasts they have available to them, they can, but otherwise their view of the spells is, by default, base level only and not a tragic mess of blue.

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  Elle Burgess

  • January 24, 2020 04:18

  there are now three separate issues open addressing this concern:
  
  https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360033278654-The-option-to-hide-the-higher-level-versions-of-lower-level-spells
  
  https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360033422253-Filter-for-not-showing-upcast-spells-in-the-spells-list
  
  https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360024330753-Optional-Spell-Upcasting
  
  can these be consolidated and/or at least have their up-votes tallied?

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  Osirisp

  • November 23, 2019 18:36

  Yes, please. This has also been discussed in the forum thread https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/25670-request-ability-to-remove-upcast-spells

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  spacegaier

  • July 14, 2020 12:11
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  The option was now added as a character preference (not on individual spell level) with the update from June 8th: https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog/827-character-sheet-changelog-early-june-updates

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  Luke Tarver

  • July 14, 2019 02:21
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  This should be a filter, like the Concentration/Ritual filters. Perhaps they can fix this when they (finally) add in a filter for NON-concentration spells, which is far more useful. Also, all of these should retain their state when you navigate away and back to this panel.

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  Tom Moses

  • July 30, 2019 00:20

  There's an option for a magic item that has a +/- selection that would be pretty handy to use in place of multiple listings.  Or even the Pact v Slot option if you have a multi-class Warlock and Spell Caster, once a player hits "cast" have a secondary popup that asks "Level?" and by default it selects the spell level, but if applicable the player can hit a + icon to upcast the spell and it calls up the used slot from the character sheet.

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  Joshuajm Gm

  • October 18, 2019 00:24

  Yes please change this, we stopped playing for a month and this was the first thing I noticed when I came back, how annoying all the spell levels are.

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  Rae King

  • October 19, 2019 15:25

  I understand the intention to make marking off the correct spell slots easier when upcasting, but a much less cluttered way to do this would be to have a pop up whenever you cast a spell in which you select the level that you are casting it at. 

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