She is not only strong at the beginning, but also quite good in the endgame. What bothers me more now is the Gift skill, which can remove 10 debuffs in a row. But in general, it's now a full-fledged skill, just like Luck + Deadly Strike + Reflection.
So, the desired effect has been achieved.
We can also increase the cost of the machines, since they have been enhanced. So that at the beginning, players have to pay a lot for them.
I agree, it's the simplest and most reasonable solution. At the beginning, the player will have to choose whether to use resources to build an army or focus on expensive but effective war machines.
In the original, the starting price for a ballista is 1500, a tent is 500, and a cart is 750. In the city's forge, 2 out of 3 machines (randomly) are sold at three times the price, i.e., a ballista can cost either 1500 or 4500, and the other machines are either at the starting price or three times the price.
The question is: by how much should we increase the price?
I think that, considering the enhancement of the machines themselves, their prices should be approximately as follows:
Ballista - 2500. In the city, the price will be 2500 or 7500.
Tent - 1500. In the city, the price will be 1500 or 4500.
Cart - 1000. In the city, the price will be 1000 or 3000.
By the way, the following nuance arises: if the price of war machines increases, then the weight of heroes who initially have machines in their arsenal (Vittorio, Daleb, Kaspar, etc.) will also increase significantly, and against the background of these heroes, the others (non-machine users) will be less of a priority at the beginning (from an economic point of view).
Perhaps it would be worth taking away the starting machines from these heroes and compensating for this with stats, for example, +1 to Attack, Defense...?
In the original, I was always a little surprised by the fact that sometimes you go into the forge and see a ballista for 4500, and then you go into the tavern and see Vittorio with a free ballista + starting army + cockroach ability, and all for only 2500. As they say: "Why pay more?".
What are your thoughts on this?
