In D&D you need certain materials to cast certain spells. (diamond dust for stone skin for example)
However, BG series removed this all together resulting in ridiculous ownage by mages. A level 20 mage can toy around with level 50 fighter using a timestop, and a level 30 mage can kill 2~3 level 50 fighters alone with a timestop and chain contingency. and spells are literally infinite since you can rest as often as you like without time constraints.
I suggest we emulate D&D magic material requirement by requiring gold to cast magic, depending on its level.
a practical formula could be something like gold spent for casting: 10 * square of spell level.
So level 1 spell will cost 10 gold each time its casted, level 5 spell 250 gold, and level 9 spell will cost 810 gold each.
This will enable players to use magic without throwing 10 high-level spells in each fight.
The game doesn't make much sense in a way that you are casting rare magic spells way too often rather than saving them up for tough fights. What's the point of encounters against weak monsters if each time you just throw a horrid wilting and the fight is over in 1 sec?
If this is to be implemented, cleric spells will have to use gold as well for balancing reasons. They will cost less(since they only have up to level 7) though.
With a mage you don't need a tank. Solo mage can beat the entire game(from BG2 start) without taking 1 hp damage. A mage can replace rogues with protection from energy, elements + stoneskin and magic deflection which will ignore all traps(even better than a rogue, IMO!) I can simply run through traps without taking any damages at all. A mage can also become an insane DPS *warrior* with tensir's change + vampiric touch + dark blade+haste which will grant the mage 2 times attack per round with 250HP and 30~40 damage per hit.
A mage is potentially better stealth, tank, warrior, rogue than specialized classes..... that's just plain wrong.
I play a mage/sorc most of the time and if you know how to use them they are gamebreakingly powerful.
This power should come at a cost.
However, BG series removed this all together resulting in ridiculous ownage by mages. A level 20 mage can toy around with level 50 fighter using a timestop, and a level 30 mage can kill 2~3 level 50 fighters alone with a timestop and chain contingency. and spells are literally infinite since you can rest as often as you like without time constraints.
I suggest we emulate D&D magic material requirement by requiring gold to cast magic, depending on its level.
a practical formula could be something like gold spent for casting: 10 * square of spell level.
So level 1 spell will cost 10 gold each time its casted, level 5 spell 250 gold, and level 9 spell will cost 810 gold each.
This will enable players to use magic without throwing 10 high-level spells in each fight.
The game doesn't make much sense in a way that you are casting rare magic spells way too often rather than saving them up for tough fights. What's the point of encounters against weak monsters if each time you just throw a horrid wilting and the fight is over in 1 sec?
If this is to be implemented, cleric spells will have to use gold as well for balancing reasons. They will cost less(since they only have up to level 7) though.
With a mage you don't need a tank. Solo mage can beat the entire game(from BG2 start) without taking 1 hp damage. A mage can replace rogues with protection from energy, elements + stoneskin and magic deflection which will ignore all traps(even better than a rogue, IMO!) I can simply run through traps without taking any damages at all. A mage can also become an insane DPS *warrior* with tensir's change + vampiric touch + dark blade+haste which will grant the mage 2 times attack per round with 250HP and 30~40 damage per hit.
A mage is potentially better stealth, tank, warrior, rogue than specialized classes..... that's just plain wrong.
I play a mage/sorc most of the time and if you know how to use them they are gamebreakingly powerful.
This power should come at a cost.
