[crossfire] Re: Polymorph etc

[Brendan Lally]

On 1/19/06, Anton Oussik <antonoussik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did not necessarily mean more powerful spells. Some existing spells
> can get moved up the chain, and intermediate "interesting" spells can
> be added to fill the gaps, so a player always has a new spell "just
> within reach".  Either that, or spell could be made to not get more
> powerful with level, and then players could learn more powerful
> versions of a spell they already know, which would exist every 5-10
> levels.

The problem with that is that skills already scale with level,
icestorm is one of the best cold spells at any level, because of how
well its damage and range scale, so unless you want to nerf the
scaling of all the low level spells, they are going to remain the best
option, especially if the base level of the supposedly 'better' spells
is increased, because then they will have fewer levels to scale over.