Shards and mana are 2 different things. Mana is based on your essence, shards you control on the map, You need both to cast a spell.
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Just to clarify. I wrote down several different idea's. One of them was unlocking achievements somewhat as Robbie Price mentioned. I am not the biggest fan of that because there are alot of downsides to i don't know how to work around. Another was indeed what Tasunke Mentioned. I like the idea of having minor and major traits. to balance things out a little more.
I was reading the "More attributes needed for Elemental" Post from NTJedi. Red1939 replied at some point with a post about adding abilities to the game, Personally i had been thinking about this before to, It didn't get any responses within the post so i decided i'd make a new post just to talk about that. To Clarify what i am talking about with "abilities/traits" i will try to explain. Besides a unit's attributes it will sometimes also have an ability/trait, This will maybe be displa