Feldon There have been concerns about having spells with a roman numeral and then spell qualities within a tier having roman numbers (App I, App IV, Adept I, Adept III, Master I, and Master II) as far as difficulties with Broker searching or confusion among new players who have to deal with a spell named, for instance Shadow Leap II (Apprentice II).
Careful reading of Aeralik’s posts had led many people to believe that this spell renaming was just the first step in a bigger process. Naysayers, looks like you just got served. 😉 We got our hint on what that process will be with this post from Aeralik:
We are acually only going to have one roman numeral in the end. You will have Ice Comet, Ice Comet II, etc. Instead of App 1, 2, and 4 we will instead have a slightly different naming structure. That way the tier of each spell flows better and doesnt have the odd gaps like app 2 to app4 and adept 1 to adept 3 or people wondering why there is no adept 4 to match the apprentice 4.
Since it’s impossible to craft App III anymore, and Adept II and Adept IV only existing from AA spells which have 8 points that can be spent, I can certainly see wanting to change this.
It’s interesting that just 3 posts earlier, Snowdonia predicted this:
Apprentice I > Beginner
Apprentice II > Apprentice
Apprentice IV > Journeyman
Adept I > Adept
Adept III > Expert
Master I > Master
Master II > Grandmaster
And in response to Snowdonia’s post, Aeralik had this further to say:
Yeah we will probably do something like this with the tier designations. We haven’t finalized the names yet but I was proposing something similar
That sounds like a very good idea. It will be strange logging in though and not recognizing the names of most of your spells.
I think the consolidation of spells is a great idea, who needs 100+ unused spells in their spell book. From a programing standpoint it reduces code and database size for unused spells.
From a players point of view it simplifies your spell book and you can easily find spells, reference them and keep them organized.
I give this idea a thumbs up and hope Aeralik doesn’t f’it up, like the fighter changes.