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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9738441" data-attributes="member: 18">It is so I refuse to do that!People did complain about it, and whilst I don't recall the exact changes (hopefully someone has all the game builds archived somewhere), it did become a lot harder to just casually apply these effects, I think either Swen liked them too much and wouldn't let them change them entirely, or they just overlooked it once those became harder to apply because you pretty much had to use items or full action slot-based spells.Like it I think it'd be fine if there was a damage gain, but it should be like +1 per die or something, not double-damage.I think it matters a ton, because if things aren't balanced it means the game is usually distinctly less fun than if they are, and gets old much faster. Especially if one non-obscure approach trivializes everything, or even worse, there's literally an entire official class (or more than one!) or spec that's ludicrously more powerful, so if you want to play that class/spec you basically have to be OP as hell. DAO's Mage being the prime example. If you pick Mage, especially if you also bring another Mage, the game is like, hugely easier. You need severely min-maxed Warrior (or god help us, Rogue) to even begin to compete with a non-min-maxed Mage (shades of Omniman's "Look at what they need..."). That could have been interesting if they'd admitted that it was how it was, said it was for lore reasons and maybe built the Mage a different path through the game where being a Mage is a big deal (rather than how it actually is, where 90% of the time it's just a class or an extra way to bully people, except for that one mission). Instead they actually went the other way and tried to pretend it was balanced before actually balancing it in later games.</blockquote>

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