I agree, there arn't enough dmg spells in other schools. Most schools have only 1 medicore dmg spell. Only wind and fire have mutiple accessible dmg spells.

Earth: Shockwave

Death: Drain Life

Water: Blizzard

Also ive been saying forever that the current system of staffs dealing melee is rediculous. For example the staff of banishing, perfect for when your mage hero needs to bash an elemental to death, otherwise useless. All staffs should either be ranged and boost stats or unlock a spell or really increase stats.

I think Staves should either do alot of magical damage to one unit, or a little magical damage to units in a radius. The current iteration seems lacking.

Well AirIII actually gives you two damage spells, Thunderstrike and Storm. Also don't forget the mixes like Soulburning, and Contagion. Also Chain Lightning as a champion specific spell has been confirmed.

We don't need more damage spells. Damage isn't all that interesting, and it's good that different elements do different things. If all four had the same options, then why would we even have four in the first place?

There are still quite a few new interesting ways damage spells could be implemented without being repetitive. I would like to see a drown spell that does increasing damage to a unit over time. You could also have a single target overpower spell or short range breath spells.

I think staffs should act like spells in that they use spell mastery and spell resist to hit instead of accuracy and dodge.

Vetrar's Howl is better than Fireball. So is Blizzard. Water is essentially the best option.

well its totally viable

i dont like it at all but against first bandits, wolves etc any weapon and 2 pieces of leather are enough

id rather all school having some summon or dmg spell anyway

but useless to think abot spell balance until we have 90% of the spells in game to evaluate

Pandemonium is a good spell because it ignores resistance like all mass spells. Chaos isn't really worth casting however as its one of the very few spells you actually need to pass resistsance to hit and only has meh dmg and curses anyway.

Having both chaos and pandemonium feels like uninspired filler to me, especially since water lacks any really interesting spells. Replacing chaos with a drowning or icebolt spell (or almost anything) would be much better.

We DO need more damage spells.  Each school should have, at least, one, single target ranged damage spell.  All the buffs and deBuffs in the world are great, but it doesn't mean anything if you can't do the one thing in a fight that matters, doing damage.  And I don't like the idea that all but fire mages have to rely on swordplay to kill enemies.  

well its mostly for early game

and they dont really need to be ranged

1 school could have an early summon for example

anotehr could have maybe a melee spell

also a shield at lvl 1 would be enough to fight so maybe air or earth could have a decent hp shield or something like thorns reflecting dmg every time unit is hit

Lol, I made all spells resistible. But yeah, there are plenty of good things you can do with a water mage while you are getting to level 5 water. I think staves are the answer to giving mages some options besides melee.

Yea, i started to load/save before my sov has level to get high in casting levels ... if you wait FOREVER to get from, let's say, level 12 to 13 and all you got are crappy choice i either get mad and swear a lot, or, solution load and level again!

What I would like to see is a tooltip that explains how much damage can given spell do including all bonuses a hero has. 

Alternatively give an additional trait option that increases only Spell effect ...

I like how you can wither armies on the tactical map (perhaps in your own borders only ... but I wonder if we will still be allowed to stack multiple withers in the future).

I think a safe bet to avoid 'super exploits' or just bugs that crash the game, will be to allow Wither to only be 3x stackable.

Perhaps the spell is renamed to "wither 2" and "wither 3" when the other effect is already applied.

A successful wither 2 would give wither 2 to those with wither, and wither to those without.