I think all the new spells being cast by monsters are great, but they also really highlight two issues:

• Many of the spells need a time limit
• Spells like blindness should be limited to several turns of combat, much like curse already is;
• Spells like slow and haste should go back to being slightly OP, but again with a turn limit; in my 0.981 game, so far I have cast haste a dozen times and have only seen it affect turn order once (and that was against a troll where I got one three-turn streak amongst many two-turns). +3 initiative just isn't enough to affect the turns, and if it doesn't affect turns then it is useless. I'd much prefer a +6(+1) boost for three turns.
• Desperately need an accessible, school-agnostic disspell to remove permanent debuffs like shrink. Like countersell, it should be available to all mages.
• I would be happy for the generic version to be spell-agnostic, something like purge magic, and have it remove all effects, both positive and negative, from any friendly or enemy unit for the duration of the battle. This includes temporarily removing enchantments that were cast from strategic map, and buffs/debuffs you might have cast yourself. This makes it a bit situational, but always a last line when you really need that enchantment removed.
• Schools can have their own, better versions, just as with counterspell. Life can get cleanse to remove all negative effects from a friendly, or purify for the entire battlefield. Death gets divert energy to steal buffs from baddies (removing the buff from the victim in the process) to complement the existing spell that spreads debuffs (is it contaminate?). Air might have a deflect magic prophylactic to protect against tactical debuffs, etc etc.

Being permanently shrunk is no fun; now that these spells are being used against me, I care more

personally i want the role of support mage to exist

when i play proci i dont ever use 1 offensive spell

so spamming healing all the time isnt that fun and i made all buffs  short duration and more strong so you can really use them as they were attacks (like greatly buffing dmg for 1 turn etc)

apart from this buffs and debuffs lasting too long is unbalanced because they are too good if casted by non mages

right now you dont want a mage with haste

you want a WARRIOR with haste, because haste just matter for 1 turn, after that its better having a warrior, ofc this could be solve making buffs more dependant on the caster, like dmg spells are

this is a plain nonsese, mages should be the best casters

last but not least monsters sometimes makes op combo

if you fight  a darkling with a warrior and you get blinded its game over

how can that be fun? at least witha duration you have a window to take down your opponent

I don't find counterspell to be always readily available when I want it, because it is limited to mages. I am suggesting the same here.

Another reason for turn limits is scaling mana cost on non-damage spells.

Damage spells let you control mana spend through repeat application. Of the non-damage spells, right now many are too cheap (because they should be accessible) while many are too expensive for what they do, so they don't get cast until the lategame. Turn limits let you keep the spells cheap and accessible, but control mana burn with the same repeated application approach as damage spells enjoy: if I only have a little mana, I can plan to use it for my one cast of blindness at just the right time, but if I have mana to burn I can have my support mage spam blindness all day long.

@ Sratner: You make an interesting point.

The only problem I see is the haste/slow in this case, since if haste last lets say 3 turns, it also makes those 3 turns come faster, and that is kind of counter intuitive if you ask me, 20% quick turns for 3 turns = 60% more turn... that is not worth using 1 turn on.

Slow on the other hand, will make the 3 turn duration come slower, but now it would only be used against already slow monsters!.

Also casting blindness on a fast unit, will make that unit get rid of its own blindness quicker, all of a sudden initiative becomes an even more important factor in combat than it already is!
While the turn notion is interesting, I personally don't want initiative to become more important, if you could give the spells a separate initiative count, without messing up the UI when 5-6 debuffs are cast, then it would be extremely awesome, but I see it as a lose/win suggestion, either its really cool, or it kind of breaks the buffs/debuffs into annoying or useless... (or still overpowered, but in a new silly way).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

well the initiative problem is real

the more i play and balance the more initiative seems going towards op or at the very least hard to balance

still i think a turn timer is much better

also its a buff to initive for debuffs

but its a nerf for buffs, stuff that grants positive effects lasts less

for example a buff giving 50% dodge for 2 turns is nearly useless on some very fast unit that may move 2 times b4 any opponents do anything

initiative is quite hard to balance

I like the currentl potency of the blindness spell. I just don't like that it doesn't end. I would think a spell that powerful would wear off after about 10 turns. This way, you get smacked around a bit, yet may recover if you last long enough.

Don't weaken the spell. That completely removes it's point.

The mite thing is really bad. Why are we giving Death spells to cockroaches?

This is kind of funny, a lot of you were calling for monsters to be tougher and some of you were calling for tactical spells from the AI to be more common. Now they are and people are complaining about that too.

I've commented on debuffs like blind and shrink in previous threads and said there was a need for disenchants or temporary effects from these types of spells. I hope some changes are made in this area but I'm not sure the devs see things the same way.

Really, blindness should start at 5% and increase by 1% every action. That would be a cool spell. 

I'd go with 10% less each turn, but otherwise I agree.  Support mages need more to do than just lobbing a spell or two at the beginning.  Shorter durations to spells would also justify them being increased in magnitude, and make players like me spend their mana faster   I would also like some sort of tactical dispel, even if buffs/debuffs are more limited in duration.

i dont get why you want an eternal rng , randomness should be removed from games its a

25% just means the debuff may destroy a warrior, if lucky or be useless if the warrior lucks

a strong effect means the debuff works always, and its quite strong but for a short duration