magic is overpowered but thats becuase of several reasons.

1) They increased mana per shard for testing purposes and never dropped it. Mana generation should be controlled more by techs, traits and buildings.

2) There are 100+ spells and some are of course unbalanced

3) Mage items at this point are really rare so mages have to be good enough to work without items.

I like this idea, though I'm willing to bet coding it would take more time than it's worth. 

I am not sure I understand this correctly, but the way I understand it I disagree strongly.

As per the original post, I like the idea, more scalers for everything Hero power can be scaled on more ways than just XP though, you could change the other stuff instead if XP is too difficult (Starting hp, and bonus damage).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Honestly I think that magic should scale alot less from shards, theyre way too important right now.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Hummm..... I think mana and magic should reworked, they are very weak and not use very much, it's so easy and fun to play a warrior, but mage is not fun to play, too much drying, too limited of mana, and not lot of spell help in battle, I don't see much 1 level of range spell damage, sure as air, earth, water, life, no damage there, though fire had one, but it's not range but close one, only thing fire second level had a good spell range, but little cost lot of mana for little damage. That's me, though.

Regarding a EXP toggle, I don't mind this option, but you should also be aware that your sovereign level has a huge impact on faction prestige, which in turns affect overall empire growth. The latest changes (slowing down leveling) has resulted in also slowing down empire growth. I have a more indept explanation on that aspect here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/424125

So before adding this toggle, they'd also need to do something that tweaks that as well. Or perhaps just chalk it up as part of the experience the player wants and just make sure the AI can handle it appropriately.

Regarding magic, I do think magic spells are costing too little. With some basic mana reduction setup on your hero (Path of the Mage, Affection, and Mantle of Oceans), you can cast the cheaper spells for 1 or 2 mana. Meaning you can cast them pretty much forever in tactical. My most used spells is slow and haste. Slow, when used on big bad bosses (and with a few water shards) allows me to kill them before they even move. 100x more effective than firedart if you have some troops with you. Haste just makes things even more unfair. Both of those spells cost 1 mana per cast with the aforementioned mana reduction setup.

I also use enchantment spells a lot, mainly city enchantments, I only use unit enchantments when I really need to (and that's not often).