Posts from ASW – Alternative hero leveling. Auto-translated

Answer the main question: why is it worse to use town classes than to give other native magic schools to races?

Well, you’ve created an elf (with an upgrade!) and given him the Summoning skill. Now he has 3 native schools. Will you give the other heroes 3 schools as well?
And if you don’t give the elf the Easy Summoning skill, there won’t be much point in having a summoning city.

(when used, you will already need 2 classes for this mod)

We only have 2 races, and it's unlikely that their native magic needed to be changed, and they are all elves. That is, the drop rate will only be changed for them. In the other races, if you are worried about the drop rate of a rarer school or don't choose a starting hero with a rare school, you don't need to take a city class.

In all other cases, does it make sense to create city classes?

And if, in addition, a typical hero + an atypical city appears, for which only 1-2 heroes are suitable (or 10-20%), which are difficult to find in the tavern, then it's not ideal.

I took a look at the update to your build in the thread's header.
1) Logistics. It's already a very good base, and now it has some amazing perks on the early levels (speed aura, speed magic, sharp mind). Path of War + Marauding is an overpowered combination; they shouldn't be combined. You can endlessly move around the map with a sufficient density of neutral creatures (Marauding removes the combat penalty, Path of War adds a combat bonus).

]2) Wisdom in Education. What's wrong with it: it disrupts the combination of Wisdom + Secret Knowledge (spell level 1-3). On the other hand, a new combination is created (Wisdom + Insight), but it's still debatable.

]3) Resistance in Education is useless.

]4) How will Secret Knowledge work if it grants a level 3 spell but without Wisdom?

]5) Are you also going to buff Secret Advantage? OMG.

]6) Spoils: it looked great in Luck (random perk). Why move it to Leadership and then add an analogue to Luck?

]7) Return to Void in Attack? OMG. The skill is ruined. Oh, wait. Phantom too. I'm shocked. I refuse to comment.

]8) The Attack branch is very overloaded.

]Resistance in Defense. I assume this is Reflection? You have Resistance in Education.

]9) Readiness and Stalwart Defense. Why separate them? Who will take Readiness without Stalwart Defense?

10) Weakness to Darkness. In Defense???

]11) Silent Hunter. +1 to Initiative??? This is very strong in itself (consider it as getting +4 to Attack). And here, in addition to a decent Hunter, you have it.

]Where is Retribution? Where is Counterspell?

]- Seals of Light and Darkness are placed in opposite schools
- Dark Restoration is in Sorcery (I didn't notice before that it has nothing to do with Darkness)
- Speed Aura is in Logistics

Why doesn't education increase stats?

It will work. It's not necessary to know the school to learn it.

Is a skill considered "broken" if it gives +200 damage?

It should be there. Education increases stats. The perk does too.

What's the connection? Besides, "Deafness" doesn't work when using Readiness.

Yes. But more importantly, an Orc will be able to learn it.

A pathetic ring that gives +10% initiative has a similar effect, but there are still strong perks there, and an alternative is needed.

Maybe you can create a new school somehow?

but there are still strong perks there, and an alternative is needed.

It either increases random stats or magic stats.

How exactly will it work? Will it be added to the book and be invisible until the hero unlocks the required school?

This is a very niche perk (without Phantom), which you somehow included in the popular Attack.

I don't understand. How did you get two identical perks and put them in both places? Or is it through scripts?

Put it in Diminish Darkness. Then, after a double weakening, Darkness will go to zero. And without Diminish Darkness, it still won't save the Orc from Darkness.

Pitiful? I almost choked.

There is also such an option. For the Barbarian, education duplicates, so you can formally move its perks to standard education, and use the duplicate as a new school through scripts. True, you will have to work hard to neutralize the bonuses from education.

That's the problem - Logistics has become an overpowered school with a strong non-combat base and the coolest combat perks, starting from level 1.

But don't you think that's what the phantom is for?

I'm saying that it should be left for all races.

Or is the aura of speed, offensive unit, speed magic, and pillaging worse? You are again thinking in absolute terms. Everything is relative here!

No, it's completely new. The developers have reworked the Orc's education, so there was a reason.

By the way, where did you see that the War path is linked to Marauding?

But the fact that both effects (the awesome phantom and the specific void) are completely unrelated, doesn't that bother you?

Why? Aren't there enough ordinary magic deviations with luck and artifacts? The Seals of Darkness? Eternal Light? The Tent? Mass speed boosts from (your) Logistics? You're ruining the aesthetics for a millimeter of weakening Darkness. There has never been, and was never intended to be, anything like an anti-darkness effect in defense.

Well, the speed aura is definitely worse. But the problem isn't that. Let's say you've balanced the perks within Logistics, but Logistics as a whole (as a school) has become overpowered.

I didn't find that meaning. The skill works exactly the same. And the perks are set individually for each race.

How would you eliminate the random addition of education, both visually and mechanically?

By the way, I've already answered this new question.

Perks can also be rearranged, for example, Death Stride and Speed Aura, etc.