Top Ten Worst-Written Spells, Class Features, Racial Abilities, Feats, Items, etc

[molten_dragon]

Some of each, really. For example, candle of invocation is just bad design; it says what it means, and means what it says, and the result is stupidly broken. DWK is basically just poor wording: it took years for the web community to figure out exactly what was said.
Now, teleport, despite being something of a story-breaker power, isn't really broken in the same sense; it doesn't mess up the mathematical core of the game, it just adds some unusually effective options. It's not even open-ended in the same way polymorph is.

Okay, in that case put me down for:

Iron Heart Surge (1)
Truenamer (1)
Tainted Scholar/Tainted Sorcerer (1)
Beholder Mage (1)
Ur-Priest (1)
Planar Shepherd (1)
Manipulate Form (1)
Thought Bottle (1)
Persist Spell (1)
Monster races - The whole LA and RHD thing just doesn't work most of the time (1)