Balance: OP Spells

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Hi,

I know balance is obviously not in the cards yet, but I've encountered some spells that are insane. Number one? Dirge of Cersei.

With 2 death shards I've managed to run around the world, destroy enemy empires, and kill all monsters. The spell does a ridiculous amount of damage. I'm seeing numbers like 68 or 100 at a time.

You should know however that I did stack spell damage bonuses. I'm using the staff she starts with, and I selected several of the 'increase spell damage by 50%" buffs.

I pretty much ran around with her and my starting hero (assassin) and destroyed the enemy with very little resistance. Using troops barely made a difference. I was playing challenging AIs that had Empire ratings much higher than mine- they did not pose a threat. Even in a battle where I was fighting 10 vs 2, I called up Dirge and killed everything in a single turn. 

 

What are some other OP spells/combos have you discovered?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Don't know about OP spells, but the summon fire elemental is still weak as hell...

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top


not so much an opp spell but rather an example of the lack of a channelling limit per turn to prevent this abuse from happening

*BUMP*

Perhaps an increase to the mana cost of the spell as the effect increases per shard with the option of casting the spell at a lower shard effect. I think that would solve the problem.

 

EDIT: I also think they are being carefull with summon spells after the events of WOM early push summon strategy - although there still seems to be some of that with the earth elemental - dunno why you can control one by casting the strategic version of the spell then pull another one out for  the fight with the same mage with a tactical version of the same spell.

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