Trample balance discussion

[Illuminated One]

Originally Posted by Honeybagder

How is it that a mage isn't so self important/self aggrandizing as to toss a bunch of pebbles across a field, with Earth Shard, but is too classy to create a wall of earth to stop an elephant from running him over? That argument doesn't even make any sense.

There's still a big difference in parttaking in a battle (even if it comes to only throwing a bunch of low level spells around) and building field fortifications.
In many medieval cultures the first is honorable and worthy of men and nobles while the latter is a work of the slaves and the peasants.