The spell is a very high mana cost for the gildar. If the gildar was harder to aquire from quests and such, for example escorting a noble woman gives 300 gildar. That seems excessive, how about maybe 100 gildar tops. If I take the bow and sell it, I couldn't get 100 gildar for it. Same with the doom club. This would make gildar more valuable to put the alchemy spell in line.

It we take the premise that 1 mana is 1 gildar, then balance throughout the game should reflect this, otherwise I agree with the original post and the spell needs to buff the gildar amount for the sake of balance.

I would like this spell to be able to cast the converse too... gold into mana.

Never use this spell, I can find better uses for my mana
Gold I usually have enough of, from spamming cities.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Where do you get the mana dude?  I never have enough.

the point is i dont use mana in combat with warriors but i use enchants

enchants are so op...

so i have everything full enchanted but ofc i keep 2 3 mana per turn in excess

if nothing happens for some dozen turns then i have 100 200 mana to spend, maybe on new enchants if i need them, if not and i need a champion money is a good choice, anyway that mana is just an emergency pool

Hmm thinking about this, while I use my mana (actually used alchemy once today, like wow 100 gold ). You might be right at the exchange, I don't mind alchemy and it should in no way be nerfed badly, mostly because while it might be powerful to convert mana to gold, its also some of the fun stuff in the game

a 100 mana into 75 gold is still ok, I don't mind, I only use alchemy when I have too much mana and need gold, and I guess so would anyone else.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

The truth is both gold and mana is valuable resources, and both can be used to each they're ends.

They are both good, and if firefly want to play without using mana, thats fine, that is why I like spells like alchemy, I remember there being a different feature in MoM.

Gold is just used in huge chunks from the shop, those prices are insane for leather armour.
Also I use gold for rushing city stuff most of the time, 75 gold can go into 6 ish turns of production on the "average" city.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej