We are actually in 1.09t. You seem to be ahead of yourself...

Mostly in agreement. I like that you have to specialize heroes to be casters, you can just have everyone imbued and have them casting. But the point balances are off in many places.

I also think sovs should require int to cast, but just require a lot less of it than everyone else. Int becomes a dead state for them once they hit 20ish.

Agreed. I think some spells are still going in, but it feels like the Elemental books have been completely gutted of useful or interesting stuff. At level 5 spells, I think each elemental book offers 3 to 4 spells each. When you won't use 75% of those...yeah.

Maybe something like a lv 1 hero has access to level 1 spells, then every 2 hero levels new spells, perhaps make it +2 int per spell level

so level 1 int 11

level 2 int 13

level 3 int 15

level 4 int 17

level 5 int 19, or more then + if spells  go higher then level 5

( i havent gotten that far in my spell research since they changed it lol)

you have to put a lot of points into int to do this, extra int added could increase damage, and it leaves you a few point to boost your other stats as well.

actually, thats assuming a 10 stat baseline for heroes, so my numbers are actually too low, but you get the idea.

Hmm you know, coming back to look at the numbers i put down, what i meant was 2 hero levels in between spell levels at 2 point  per level, so it would be +4 not +2 

lv 1 int 11

lv 2 int 15

lv 3 int 19

lv 4 int 23

lv 5 int 27

with lv 5 being max spell  level, which i understand to be the current situation

6 hero levels to be able to cast lv 5 spells with a hero that starts at 10 int if you pump everything into int

a hero starting with 16 int just needs 3 levels of pumping all points into int.

i think that might be a good way to do it.