>>89126875Eidolon's Wrath was already mentioned. Anyone can poach Dragon's Breath (dragon barbarians get their own version and are the best barbarian to begin with, but as of this moment there's FOUR fucking ways to get dragons breath and maybe more I don't know about), monk's get Ki Blast which is force damage and even better than Sonic as a damage type
Cry of Destruction has a better damage type but worse range and targeting but actually deals equivalent damage to fireball, not just a little less, although needing to one-action magic missile or some other guaranteed damage aura is a pain in the ass to get those d12s assuming you're not just putting faith in your "I'm built different" Legendary fighter accuracy to hit the enemy first.
The Remaster is deleting Open and Press since nobody followed those RAW anyways, the only keyword people cared about was Flourish, so one the Remaster drops you can 1-action Exacting Strike and then Cry of Destruction for a fireball on top (don't do this against enemies with AoO unless you've got a reach weapon and are sure they can't hit you)
Inventors have Explode as a TOTALLY-NOT-FOCUS-SPELL Unstable action doing as much damage as fireball on even levels (and since it heightens every level instead of every 2 levels like spell slots scaling it's never far behind, i.e at level 7 it's dealing 7d6 damage when you just got fourth level fireball for 8d6, it catches up next level to 8d6 at 8)
it's pretty dumb playing in a party with a monk, fighter, and barbarian and wizard and the moment there's any multi-enemy that encounter the martials fucking AoE it to death with their better fireballs with better damage type that don't cost spell slot before it's even the wizard's turn to go (because casters have shitty Perception because FUCK YOU lol)
