Not as a level 2 spell, level 3.Insomniac wrote:Don't clerics get Blindness/Deafness as well?
Clerics get the same amount as a specialist wizard.Ice9 wrote:Clerics prepare maybe one more slot of each level per day than a Wizard. That's the limit of their increased flexibility. You might have the entire list hypothetically, but on any given day you only have the spells you prepared, and unless you have advance scouting info, that's probably the same spells on most days.
Low level clerics get a bit more flexibility because they can spontaneously get cure (or inflict) spells so they never have to prep them, and while yes, day to day you only have the spells you prepared, often times you can get a bit of insight into what you need for certain campaign areas/modules that last more than a single encounter. If an adventure lasts longer than a day then you can prep according to tomorrow's expected needs. That's where cleric's deep bench of spells known comes in handy. That's been my cleric experience.