Shark Attack now useless?

[Lingchih]

I have been fighting Oceania recently, and we both have Shark Attack. The battles have been nasty. But in our last battle where we both cast Shark Attack, lo and behold, a total of two sharks showed up, the entire battle.
I understand the the spell has been nerfed with the last patch. But please!! The spell is now useless.

[K]

Yup. One of the best spells in the game is now a gem waster you hope your water mages don't cast.

[Endoperez]

Progress page doesn't list any changes, I don't remember any changes to the shark spells, and in my test both School of Sharks and Shark Attack work just fine. I got at least ten sharks in the few turns it took for the Ichtyids to kill my pretender.

Sharks of Shark Attack only come if there's blood in the water. What kind of armies did you have? What kind of critters died? HOW did they died? I don't know if e.g. spells that don't affect mindless units are considered "bloodless" or something.

[Micah]

it worked fine in 3.15 against me, but I've heard it acts oddly when both sides in a battle cast it...as if it cancels itself out.

[Kristoffer O]

No changes to the spell that I'm aware of.
Only to Dance of the Morrigans. It has similar mechanics, but works on land instead.

Micah: Sounds strange.

[BesucherXia]

Since sharks only follow the blood, if that was a battle between undeads, should this spell just be invaild?

[Saxon]

Most of the spells that cost gems are pretty powerful, so I hope it has been kept fairly useful.

[Kristoffer O]

> Kristoffer had said yesterday in another post that the max number of sharks per turn had been lowered at some point... that's what made me think the spell had been nerfed.

I said that?

I think i meant that each turn the random dice generating sharks is decreased, so less sharks arrive each turn.

[Gregstrom]

Is that to say that the number of sharks appearing per turn decreases with time?

[Kristoffer O]

Yep