tbh i dont like multi school champions

like you said its nearly impossible to level up all schools and tbh i like the sense of progression of having more than 3 steps to upgrade spells (i d love even more upgrade like the new summon trait )

anywyay i posted my ideas here:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/418250

Or they could put more xp so we can get more traits to choose, but the good ones would only appear at some levels, or with a branching tree.

There actually are already spells that require two schools. Some of them are pretty amazing: Contagnation, Gentle Rain, Earth to mud (or whatever the equivalent name is), forced march. The trouble is that there are so few choices to go around at level up, trying to level multiple schools can seriously hurt your character development.

Perhaps just as importantly, in a huge fit of irony, many of these dual spells are just as effective in the hands of a non-spellcaster focused character. It would make significantly more sense if these spells were restricted to champions with path of the mage, had a level restriction, and did not consume as many level up choices. Really the only reason I can see for the 5 spell schools is to reduce the chances of a champion from getting master level spells too early in the game.

The difference isn't particulary game breaking either: 2 versus 4 level up choices. It just makes it a little more viable dabble in other spell schools. Given that actions in combat are a fixed commodity it won't necessarily make these champions any stronger, but increases the chances of obtaining dual-school spells. To prevent starting with contagnation the spell requirement could be either 2 air or 2 death and 1 of either air or death. Or if that is complicated to program, simply make dual cast spells require a fixed level in schools (1 air 2 death in this case).

Speaking of which, ceresa should really start with air and not fire, as her faction trait doesn't kick until she maxes out the death school otherwise.

How would any of this make the game more dull? You still gain the same spells, they are just organized differently. It actually opens more possibilities to create dual and tri spell school spells as it will be more viable to level multiple schools.

Because by removing tiers you'd be reducing the need to specialize thus making the whole system more bland, because what you're really asking for is for every mage to be able to cast every spell.  The whole idea is that the character *should not* be both a multi-school master and a single-school master, which is what your proposed system would ultimately accomplish.  As a player i feel you should need to *choose* either mastery in one school, or multi-school mediocrity.  Every mage should not be able to cast every spell in the game. 

Now like I said, the entire system needs A LOT of balance at this point, so we'll see how that goes.  But I highly doubt changing the entire spell system would be considered at this stage of the game.