Don't look if you want to maintain your illusion of Elemental having a vast array of unique and interesting spells. =P

umm I didn't see fire bolt or lightning bolt. Haste.  Hmmm there is a few missing from the list.

And usually you use about 1/10 of them

I don't mind the limited number of spells as much as everybody gets the same spellbook. Research one special tech, and you have all spellbooks. 

Ok,

This thing just made me fell off my chair.

The spell of making costs... 20 Mana to cast...

What? This is completely ridiculous. Again, taking MOM as a reference I think the Spell of Mastery was more than 1000 mana points to cast and could take very long to cast if you didnt' spend enough points in your casting skill. (skill that determined how much mana/turn you could expend to cast spells)

I'm floored.

Spell of making takes as much mana as 4 Chain Lightning...

Anybody else things this is utter madness!?

I have a thread discussion on mana, spells and the casting system.

Go have a look if you are interested:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/394869

I still can't get back on chair...

V

The problem is they don't allow for multiturn casting so you have to have all that mana available at once which considering the current system of levelling is a feat for your channeler although often ridiculously easy for your children.

The difficult of casting the Spell of Making is researching it, not casting it. just so you know.

Remember 20 mana still requires either a child that has high mana, or you needed to have level'd your Sov 3 times and level'd up Essence each time.