Posts from Harmony - Troop Symmetry

So, light + summon for the Elf faction is definitely not optimal...

These – discarding 3-4 stacks for 0.6 turns on the timeline – is good and perfectly aligns with gaining tempo.

An Elf can definitely cast Enchanted Arrow with Blue Druids, even without investing in Chaos, using Stone Skin or Thorns.

The Chaos school for an Elf could be similar to that of a Necromancer; it might not be ideal, but it works well when available. Arrow Storm, as well as Enchanted Ballista, are not mandatory; no one forces you to invest in them if you don't like the summoning or low-level Chaos spells.

A situational summon is much better, to be honest. With the current schools in the Elven Alliance, there is still an opportunity to invest in summoning and get, say, a Dire Elf, and not just her. And then, please, you can summon wasps or a phantom, which often drops in the Elven cities. But this is already a conscious choice of the player, and not a narrowly specialized build imposed by the game, that's all.

Where is the forced choice here? Who said that summoning is a forced choice, but chaos isn't?

A Berserk under
Enchanted Rain is an even more terrifying
thing than Meteor, but that's not a
reason to give Dark magic a profile.

There are many spells that work with Enchanted Rain,
including Chaos spells, many of which
appear in guilds of levels 1-3.

Without the skill, there will be no post-effects. No stuns, no freezes, and their damage will be mediocre. It wasn't great even before with senior druids, and now, without the skill and without specialists in chaos with a reduced set of spells... No, I don't think so.
However, okay, I've started a debate here. If people want it, let them do it. But I don't see the point, seriously.

I don't disagree. But Darkness doesn't really fit the lore, while Chaos does.

Actually, Chaos isn't quite right. Elemental magic,
Primal Magic (everything originated from chaos,
if you really get into the origins) would be
a better fit.

and what's wrong with an elf-elementalist — let's remember
the "Nature" race from the fourth part of Heroes.

It just so happened that when we mention
elves, we remember summoning. Maybe we can do that — light and summoning + building
"Syllana's Wrath Altar" that places Meteor Shower and
Earth Shock on levels 4 and 5 of the guild.

And another question – how did you make the demons lean towards chaos, and the Dungeon faction lean towards darkness? I have a similar idea.

Mages have a library that reveals one spell per level – why do you doubt that adding these two earth-based spells for the Elves is feasible through building construction?