Astral magic seems overpowered

[Omnirizon]

Originally Posted by Illuminated One

Yeah, it's not really impressive now.


@chrispedersen

The idea is interesting, what do you do with the other globals, though?
Air now has 2 gem gens (and a couple of others already) and is a quite powerful path as it is.

To the same addressee as quote:

I'm all far experimenting with more drastic balance changes. However, the other benefits of the paths need to be considered in making changes; particularly the bless benefits.

W has a big (maybe the best) bless benefit, and will get big-W pretenders for that reason. Adding a big-W spell to buff this school is a mistake because it will not persuade anyone to take water that wouldn't have anyway, and will only give certain already powerful builds even more power. Instead, W needs low level spells added/buffed, or maybe the level of existing W spells lowered to make this school more powerful via ease of access.

For the same reason as with W, putting more big-F spells to buff that school is probably not the right tack. Why not try making Falling Fires/Frost F2 and W2 respectively instead?

A has maybe the worst bless benefit, so it can stand to have more big-A spells because that will actually make it worth having a big-A pretender. Additional gem boosters might be a good idea for that reason, but should probably be a minimum of A7 because it is pretty easy to get to A6 if you have A4.

A big-N spell added might also be a good idea, because no one takes N big-bless, and would therefore make taking big N more of an option for some builds, while removing power from builds that already have a great big-bless benefit. I say _might_ because N little-bless is a great option, and so there is already some incentive to have a higher N on a pretender.