imo its perfect

they are not mages... you cant have a spell that is comparable to real spells

Ok Mr. Perfect... will you please let the Internet know how often you use Hurl Boulder?

Maybe if it had "overkill" (dmg x unit in stack) it might make more sense.

burning hands is similar dmg and range 1...

maybe 15 mana dunno

Lord, I didn't even think of that, this means you are probleby spending 22 mana and doing 2-3 points of damage.  22 mana to throw a rock from close distance.  

Yea, if it had overkill, it would be worth it, becasue then it would be useful agaisnt soldiers, not heroes or single monsters, but it would have at least a use.

Give him a bloody throwing dagger and throw out the spell

Or make the spell worthwhile

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Whats this strength your talking about?

They phased that out in beta 4 I think it was.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

the problem is there isnt in the game a magic dmg for earth things, so they do random stuff mostly resistable

but still lets compare the n1 school of damage dealing

burning hands

cooldown2

dmg 8+4 per shard but HALVED if resisted

range 1

mana cost 10

hurl  boulder

cooldown 3

dmg 8+2 per shard, but CANNOT be resisted

range 3

mana cost 22

so basically on cd and ranged they both win one and lose 1

damage is hard to say but you have consider that early stuff usually has nearly no armor, while you may find something fire resistant or immune

also you still can get a random resist with burning hands while you cant with hurl boulder

mana cost is much better for burning

so i agree mana cost could be reduced slighly but not much more than that, this is still a ranged spell and its lvl 1 so not supposed to be that good after a bit, same as with burning hands

and fire IS the dmg school, earth damage spells HAS to be inferior

yes reducing mana cost seems the only thing to do id go with 12

Didn't mean to be rude, so sorry for that, while I liked your idea about scaling, its just to find another attribute.
I personally still find 22 mana to be an extraordinarily high amount compared to throwing a buff on a unit before combat, and dismissing it after.

As I said too, another issue I have with the current Hurl Boulder, is its just a mana expensive version of the throwing knife, while this is ok atleast make it notably better than throwing knifes.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej