Posts from REWORK for the Academy. Is it needed or not?

There is always this focus on making the game easier. In my opinion it would be better to make DD less overpowered by only allowing 1 pr. turn.

I remember the times, when the 4 casts of Dimension Door spell by a single Hero were allowed per turn. And those rules were used in considerable club champs for a long period of time.
Only Heroes playing via Internet have led to the restriction of DD spell, and finally the conclusion, that the 2 DD's per turn with expert Air magic secondary skill is optimum case on eXtraLarge maps, was made. Otherwise the DD would have the greatest power, of cause, but on the other hand, with a single jump per turn, the Air magic wouldn't be populal as the skill for the Main -- the only profit from expert one would be the contra for mass Slow in the Final Fight, but expert View Air can be easily done by the Scout. So the 2 DD's are also appropriated to reinforce the Air magic school, which have become less pupular after the previous steps against DD :)

Oh, these are cool stories about how you can't play HLs without it.
Usually, the searches end after taking a mini-utopia and building the first GM.

It's already clear enough, Sb. Skills vs. Sb. Lackerks))

If you rework the Town Portal, you won't have to spend the whole game defending resource locations and building chains of structures for various purposes. For me, this would diminish a part of the game, although it might be beneficial for offline tournaments with strict time limits.

Sorry for the ambiguity, I meant that after the lack of control in the 1st Dragon Utopia and the Mage Guild, very many people go and write on the forum that a rebuild is needed, instead of searching further ;)

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Let me put it another way: currently the game on XL consists of searching for control, then confluxes / Dragon Fly Hives / stats. If a Mage Guild rebuild were made, you wouldn't have to manage resources with spoons the whole game and build chains for various banks. For me, a piece of the game would be lost here, although perhaps for offline tournaments with strict time limits a rebuild would be beneficial.

And when, in some crucial match, you build 5 level 4 Grand Mages and don't get either Town Portal, Anti-Magic, or even a single Scrying spell, and this happens despite having a bunch of collected and discarded scrolls – that's just ridiculous and completely ruins the game in that match.

This isn't about a suit. It's like when you're dealt a bad hand in poker, you need to shuffle the deck somehow):cool:

Well, they are changing it:smile04:

The catch is that right now, it's the opposite – most players aren't really focused on gathering resources for the Grand Mage. Many don't even take Wisdom, not just at level 6, but even at level 12, relying on getting everything in the Utopia, or at worst, in the first tower, and they do get it... This opinion is based on watching a decent number of streams from various players. And when in some key game, you build 5 Tier 4 Grand Mages and don't get any Teleportation, Antimagic, or even a single Scouting spell, and this is on top of a bunch of collected and discarded scrolls – it's complete nonsense that completely ruins the game in that match.