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Regarding the muting mechanic – no one forces you to take muting skills; if you don't need them, don't take them. As I understand the WGE's idea, the goal is to ensure that the necessary skills always appear, and the fact that an unnecessary skill appears upon leveling up is unacceptable. But how can you know what a player needs and what they don't? This is a personal matter for each player, which means that both necessary and unnecessary skills will always appear in any case.

The thing is, when you add silencers, the chance of getting offered several useless skills in a row increases. And that means there's a higher chance of ruining the skill progression. If there wasn't any randomness, it would be a different story – situational silencers wouldn't bother anyone. By the way, silencers have already been tried out for all races – in a certain English-language mod called RPE, I recommend checking it out on the heroes community. But in the end, they still tied the silencers to side effects, in the form of summoning elementals to cities. Because pure silencers... that's quite a mess.

As I understand it, the idea wasn't just to add suppressions, but to replace the magic schools that aren't studied by these races with them. Then the chance of getting several unnecessary skills will remain the same.

5. Humans learn Light, suppress Darkness, Chaos and Summoning are not their thing, but they will still have two magic schools in the guild, so they can learn Summoning in the guild, and therefore can also learn Summoning and suppress Chaos.

Those that are not studied are one thing, and those that are rare are another. Even if a school is not represented in a guild above level 3, it is still more useful. But taking away the Darkness from humans is essentially depriving them of a powerful and in-demand weapon. If Darkness is preserved for humans, then reducing the chance for non-core schools by 2% can still be accepted. But under no circumstances should the chances of this abomination be increased.

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Appealing to people is not relevant; light and darkness are what make up the nature of humans and are reflected in the gameplay. Summoning, on the other hand, is a school for magical races, implying high magic and knowledge, wizardry, and education. Again, no one forces you to play a dark knight; the choice is yours. But unlike reducing or summoning, it is impossible to call darkness useless for humans.

I wonder, would you like it if humans were deprived of light? After all, it is quite realistic - besides, humans benefit more from darkness - teleport, mass haste, and stone skin can also be obtained from skills, but the debuffs from darkness cannot be replaced by anything.

I agree that darkness is very useful to them, and often even more useful than light, but we shouldn't base our decisions on the fact that "it's very useful to them" - darkness and Life Enchantment would be great - a rain of enchanted arrows with Berserk, and that's it, game over. In this case, I am guided by the same logic as the developers of Heroes 7 (they don't have darkness in the Human guild) - there should be no magic of Malassa in the cities of Erathia; humans are zealous fanatics of the school of light, darkness is unacceptable to them, only light. The question remains with the guild - as I understand it, it won't be possible to make only a column with light magic in the guild, so we need something from summoning or chaos - darkness is contrary to the teachings of Erathia, but summoning and chaos are neutral, hence the choice between them as a second school. Of course, we can leave the possibility of upgrading darkness for humans, but it must be removed from the city (let's say, we will leave humans a chance for a secret fascination with darkness, but officially we have nothing to do with darkness :D).

Okay, I guess for me, as a fan of the 5th installment, the philosophical image of the classic light-dark humans is closer than the fairy-tale-like zealous light fanatics from the 7th installment.

In general, given the large number of different duchies, there is nothing preventing them from coexisting in different ways. Moreover, it seems that one or two of these duchies, with a more tolerant attitude towards "foreigners," actually exist.

You don't necessarily need to delve into the history of Ashan to play Heroes, especially that version that served as the basis for parts 6 and 7. Humans can officially believe in anything and strive for anything, but that doesn't negate the dark side of their nature. To better understand the Light, you must also understand the Darkness. Light spells dispel opposing Darkness spells, and removing spells in general removes almost any Darkness. How can you achieve such effectiveness without understanding Darkness? Of course, this argument doesn't require studying Darkness alongside Light in all guilds of other races, but it at least explains this seemingly contradictory combination in humans.

By the way, was the idea of "light" blinding also taken from parts 6 and 7?

There's a question: from my observations, when the "Empowered Shot" skill triggers (the target unit is pushed back one tile on the battlefield), the pushback doesn't seem to occur on the attack timeline, but the skill description clearly states that it should – what's the reason?