Recommendations:
Note: these are based on the
philosophy of
- balancing the number of spells in each level across schools
- balancing within each school the progression of the number
of spells in each level
- increasing the number of low-level spells
- balancing the aggregate usage of each school
- balancing within each school the progression of usage
from level to level
Drawbacks of the data interpretation used to make these
recommendations:
- 'number of casts' doesn't necessarily reflect the usefulness
of a spell. As such, this is only a valid heuristic for large differences,
which unfortunately we have here.
- The data crunched has been gathering for some time, so
the new Renaissance spells haven't yet had a chance to make much of an
impact. Further balancing in terms of spell/skill power (but not which
ones we add) may become necessary as new data is collected.
Qor:
- +2 level 1
- +1 level 2
- [perhaps move a level 4 to level 3 - since shadow rift and curse weapon
are very low-impact, not a big deal]
- [perhaps +1 level 3 - substitute for above]
- make level 1 more useful
- make level 4 more useful
- make level 5 more useful
Shal'ille:
- +2 level 1
- +1 level 3 [or move a level 4 to level 3]
- move a level 2 to level 1
- make level 2 much more useful [may be difficult to increase usefulness
while decreasing # of spells]
- make level 3 much more useful
Faren:
- +8 overall
- +3 level 1
- +1 level 2
- +1 level 3
- +1 level 4
- make level 3 more useful
- make level 4 more useful
Kraanan:
- +3 level 1
- [perhaps +1 level 2]
- move a level 3 to level 2
Riija:
- +1 level 4
- make level 3 more useful
Jala:
- +1 level 1
- +1 level 2
- +1 level 3
- +1 level 6
Weaponcraft:
- [perhaps +12 overall - probably too ambitious for this update]
- +4 level 1
- +2 level 2
- +1 level 3
- +1 level 4
- +2 level 5
- +1 level 6