<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kevin,</div><div><br></div>Aside from flipping sorcery and evocation, the spells that needed reassigning were bullets,a couple of odd ball summoning spells and ball lightning:<div><br></div><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" dir="ltr" border="1" style="table-layout:fixed;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans,sans-serif;width:0px;border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><colgroup><col width="63"><col width="159"><col width="100"><col width="100"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-weight:bold">Level</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-weight:bold">Spell</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-weight:bold">Current</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-weight:bold">Manual</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">1</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Create Missile</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Summoning</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;text-align:right">1</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Small Bullet</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">2</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Summon Fog</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Summoning</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">8</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Large Bullet</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">14</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Bullet Swarm</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">18</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ball Lightning</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Pyromancy</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">20</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Bullet Storm</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr><tr style="height:21px"><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:right">24</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Build Bullet Wall</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td><td style="overflow:hidden;padding:2px 3px;vertical-align:bottom">Evocation</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><i>*note evocation is a change because all other evocation spells are moved to sorcery and vice versa.</i></div><div><br></div><div>In the current assignment, evocation has the most damaging spells while sorcery has the least. If you toggle between the current and proposed, you will notice that the lines actually track much closer together in the proposed assignment.This is going to make training in each school more consistent.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Saru</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Kevin Zheng <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevinz5000@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevinz5000@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/14/2017 06:03, David Hurst wrote:<br>
> To try and make some progress on this front I created a visualisation to<br>
> see what these changes might look like. Take a look here<br>
</span>> <<a href="https://public.tableau.com/profile/david.hurst6129#!/vizhome/CrossfireSpellsVisualisation/Spellassignmentdashboard?publish=yes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://public.tableau.com/<wbr>profile/david.hurst6129#!/<wbr>vizhome/<wbr>CrossfireSpellsVisualisation/<wbr>Spellassignmentdashboard?<wbr>publish=yes</a>>.<br>
<span class="">> I focused on only the spells that can provide exp, I can load the other<br>
> skills if there is a strong desire to see the impact. As mentioned I<br>
> don't think there is a particularly significant effect by using<br>
> consistent spell schools definitions but i'm open to your feedback.<br>
> The data i'm using is available here<br>
</span>> <<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OIq3cIOpQoU9EZLkq8njLqY9GXqsVJ4TkYzUe_5IpKg/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>spreadsheets/d/<wbr>1OIq3cIOpQoU9EZLkq8njLqY9GXqsV<wbr>J4TkYzUe_5IpKg/edit?usp=<wbr>sharing</a>>.<br>
<span class="">><br>
> As a reminder the proposed schools are:<br>
> Evocation - Spells that create things (physical damage, food, strengthening)<br>
> Sorcery - Spells that remove energy (cold spells, poison, draining?,<br>
> depletion?)<br>
> Pyromancy - Spells that add energy (fire, lightning, light)<br>
> Summoning - Spells that call and control monsters (golems, pets, etc)<br>
> Praying - Spells gifted by channeling your gods wishes through prayer<br>
<br>
</span>I believe this discussion came up on IRC, but how do you see training<br>
experience in the new spell organization to work?<br>
<br>
The current classifications are a bit arbitrary but it seems that each<br>
spell school has a good balance of spells.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Kevin Zheng<br>
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