Mehul vil nu gøre mages til en frygtet gruppe specialister, fuldt ud ligeså skræmmende som thieves og attackers. Det vil kræve, at de offensive spells magikerne på nuværende tidspunkt har til rådighed, bliver gjort stærkere. Men Mehul har også andre planer vedrørende balancen mellem thieves, mages og attackers…
Det lader til at magikerne har noget at se frem til. For nu har Mehul givet udtryk for, at næste runde skal favorisere specialisering, også inde for mage området. Hvor der tidligere har været attackers, explorers og thief/mages, skal thief og mage nu gøres til to individuelle grene inde for specialisering.


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One of the major things we want to focus on this age is adding relatively powerful offensive-type spells to the game. One of the problems with focusing on Magic is that there isn’t too much that players can do right now.



Here, we’d like to hear your thoughts on spell ideas as well as which spells are almost never used right now. I don’t want to make the list of spells enormous, so we might drop some of the least-used spells right now.



Also, something that has come up is the idea of re-balancing Attackers/Thieves/Mages in the following way:



* Eliminate the Assassinate Wizards operation (weakens thieves, strengthens mages)



* Add an attack type that allows attackers to target thieves, mages, and peasants. The cost would be higher than normal losses to the attacker, and the attack would take longer. (strengthens attackers, weakens mages & thieves)



* Add an array of more powerful spells for mages (strengthens mages)



* Strengthen thievery operations (strengthens thieves)



The core idea here is that Mages cannot “rebuild” quickly — if a player focuses on magic and his wizards are assassinated, that is nearly impossibly to overcome because developing a focus in magic is a time-based issue — you can’t just throw money at it. The above changes would let players specialize in just Magic or just Thievery, while aligning Mages & Thieves a little more against attackers and giving the attackers a way to fight back.



Please provide your comments on this as well.



Mehul

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