[1.09u][BALANCE] min INT for many spells is way too high, and others issues of the book

I've noticed this as well. Not to mention When looking at the Air book (I haven't looked at the others in 1.09t), I did not feel like I needed to use those spells. The tornado spell is a great concept, but my military can already squash all others (and its always at the same time because of teleport).

The storm spell does so little damage its not worth using, arcane arrow is better (not to mention arcane arrow targets a specific enemy, not a random enemy).

If the devs could boost the elemental spells (or even reverse the spell orders. In other words we can pick from elemental books (or research them in-game) and the Terraforming, combat, enchanting and mobility books be researched as well. The current 4 starting books IMO are better than the elemental books thus far.

We are actually in 1.09t. You seem to be ahead of yourself...

Agree with most everything here.

Minimum intelligence should be lowered, but maybe base more of the damage on int even for starting spells. Allows you to feel like you have options even if they're only small amounts of damage.

Mostly in agreement. I like that you have to specialize heroes to be casters, you can just have everyone imbued and have them casting. But the point balances are off in many places.

I also think sovs should require int to cast, but just require a lot less of it than everyone else. Int becomes a dead state for them once they hit 20ish.

Agreed. I think some spells are still going in, but it feels like the Elemental books have been completely gutted of useful or interesting stuff. At level 5 spells, I think each elemental book offers 3 to 4 spells each. When you won't use 75% of those...yeah.

We are in u now

Maybe something like a lv 1 hero has access to level 1 spells, then every 2 hero levels new spells, perhaps make it +2 int per spell level

so level 1 int 11

level 2 int 13

level 3 int 15

level 4 int 17

level 5 int 19, or more then + if spells  go higher then level 5

( i havent gotten that far in my spell research since they changed it lol)

you have to put a lot of points into int to do this, extra int added could increase damage, and it leaves you a few point to boost your other stats as well.

actually, thats assuming a 10 stat baseline for heroes, so my numbers are actually too low, but you get the idea.

I agree with that also.  I can live with arcane arrow/spell blast mainline spells keeping their higher reqs, as long as elemental books got lower regs.

Shards need to aid more in elemental spellcasting also.

Hmm you know, coming back to look at the numbers i put down, what i meant was 2 hero levels in between spell levels at 2 point  per level, so it would be +4 not +2 

lv 1 int 11

lv 2 int 15

lv 3 int 19

lv 4 int 23

lv 5 int 27

with lv 5 being max spell  level, which i understand to be the current situation

6 hero levels to be able to cast lv 5 spells with a hero that starts at 10 int if you pump everything into int

a hero starting with 16 int just needs 3 levels of pumping all points into int.

i think that might be a good way to do it.