I support either this or buffing the Amarian and Wraith blood traits enough to make them worth considering even with the health penalty. Please don't make it another case of "if you're of race X, you can train units of type Y" - I think there are enough of those already, and one of those doesn't make much sense at all (specifically, slaves - only Quendar get slaves, regardless of the faction trait of Slave Lords. Why? On the other hand, the descriptions on the Bound Spiders and altar demons imply that only Wraiths can control them, yet these are not race-specific units, to the best of my knowledge.).

You're right, the spiders and demons are not race specific.  

The whole race balance is bad.

Amarians, Wraiths and the Thartharians has no (as of 0.9) unique abilities, besides the small bonuses.

Maybe it could be changed to -1 hp/ 2 levels. That would match the overall 1/2 as many hp per level that was previously changed.

The Wraith race is still the requirement for Hallowed Rite, which is a very nice ability (which provides 3 mana for each thing the unit kills).

Maybe Pariden should get -1Hp per level, but +2Hp per earthshard? That could be a nice balance. It pushes them to really go after shards.

Agreed...if any shard, it should be the life shard.

But then Pariden would also need a spell to convert shards to lifeshards....

This plus a massive boost to the wraith ability. So it becomes 2 health per unit killed instead of 3 per group killed, or just 20% health drain on attack. That way Wraiths and Amarians become unique instead of generic.

, I think paridens shardbonus is rubbish, I would never get enough earthshards to even the score even a tiny bit. I get way more levels than I get earthshards, and the tiny boost to resist and mastery is also pretty useless.

On average I am at the point where I am not putting new posts up about this, since I feel we talked it over tons of times and agreed that balance was bad, might just be me agreeing though

Sincerely
~ Kongdej