[PvK]

> Are you sure you aren't just seeing the results of a good armour roll on the part of the targeted unit?

If it were, then twere another bug, since Frozen Heart says it's armor-negating.

> Well, it's not like water has anything else going for it on the battlefield, so that's really not that much of an issue.

If it's not an issue to you to have level-1 skill give a spell that can kill or greivously injure humans regardless of armor with practically no failure chance, then your tastes in game balance are simply quite different from mine. Which is what it is and ok.

> Lightning has +7 precision, and the fact that it's A2 requires that you will already have a base precision of at least 12. 19 precision spells don't miss very often.

Ok, but it can miss, and I've seen it miss many times. AFAIK it counts as a missile too and so has another resistance. It appears Frozen Heart can't miss.

> Incinerate is certainly not affected by MR,

Ah, thanks.

> and it tends to do less damage than the other fire spells anyways, so that doesn't matter too much.

Well, to me, it is a good spell to compare too, and an importantly deadly one compared to others - even other fairly good (but not great) fire spells. Again, because it never misses and skips armor, and does enough damage to kill most human-sized targets in 1 or 2 shots. I've seen many folks get into the hall of fame just by loaning them a Phoenix Rod for a few battles.

PvK