Thoughts on balancing MA Man

[thejeff]

Twan said:
- using air magic with a lot of crones on the battlefield spaming thunder strikes -> to cast more than 2 per fight they need a storm for summon storm power, and a storm make longbowmen quasi useless, it's the worst ever "synergy" in the game ; also crones being mapmove 1 you'll have to move slowly, or use gems to cloud trapeze them where they are needed

While I largely agree with your assessment, I will add that the 1/4 of your crones with 3 Air will spam Thunderbolt indefinitely, they just need a bunch of Bards playing Soothing Songs. 10 or so will cancel out fatigue from a Thunderbolt. Worth it in any large battle.

It's also worth noting that not only does Storm make bows useless, Crones can only cast it with boosters or gems, nor can they make Air boosters. You need to design your pretender to forge Air boosters.