Caelum Battlefield Magic Broken

[Ironhawk]

PvK said:
Having recently had one of my EA Vanheim armies smashed by an independent province with three A2 mages in it, and having played Caelum, I am hardly sympathetic. Boo hoo, only A2 flying mages... only Lightning Bolts... No double-speed casting like in Dom 2... waaa! geez...

Uhhh... dunno why you have to use that tone. But if you'd care to read the thread, all the points I've made about air magic in dom3 are still valid. In point of fact, no one is actually seriously arguing me on air magic. They are all pointing instead to the fact that caelum is a "strong raiding nation". If your vans got killed by some lucky LBs that doesnt undo anything of what I've said.

[PvK]

Sorry for the sarcasm, really.

Dryly, then, I'd say the air magic available to Caelum works quite well at enough things to be a strong asset, if not as poweful as it was in (edit: D2). I don't think it can accurately be described as "broken" compared to the abilities of other nations in D3.

[KissBlade]

Some of you really aren't reading what Ironhawk is saying at all about when exactly is Caelum at their weakest. I don't necessarily agree with his points since I think air magic is one of the stronger evocation trees but there is a definite problem with early mid game for most magic reliant nations.

[mivayan]

Since some say freezing mist (W3A1) is very nice in cold3, a smaller area version of that spell that requires A2W1 would be neat.

[Cor]

I agree. They are weaker. I would like to see one more large area air spell added somewhere high in evocation. It would be a Caelum only spell. Something like chail lightning or shimmering feilds...