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I don't think that is a good idea. Reason to why is cause we know that you can die in a group fight in less than 5 secs. There, time is possibly even more important than a 1v1, so to make spells good and usable vs naked, they would still need to make almost FS damage. If they don't make FS damage, the naked guys will fs the EBers, kill them before they run out of mana. You'll see the naked guys victorious again. If we make it as good as FS then naked people would still have an equal chance on killing the geared so the only thing left to do would be to increase the damage over 46. That I do how ever think would be imbalanced.

Well we also all know that if we would make ebolts take half the mana FS takes, have no disadvantages, be faster to cast, and make as much dmg as a FS, then that would make players wear an armor, at least I would. Heck I probably would wear one already if somebody actually realized how good ebolts are and started using them.

Anyways, I don't think your suggestion is "bad" if properly balanced, but I think that it's unnecessary when it's so easy to make people wear armor just by doing what I said above. I wouldn't want the ebolt to make 50+ dmg either and be "overpowered", but I would just want to make it a faster and cheaper FS-dmg-spell so ppl would have to wear armor or they'd be in trouble even if time is very important. What would you prefer? Be able to cast 3 fs .. or be able to cast.. like .. 6 or more with an mana pot? ;p

Either way, keep thinking about your suggestion if you want to, if you can make it very balanced then I might be OK with it, but I still prefer mine, and it takes a lot less affort to do as well. Plus it's more sphere-ish to me, this armor-feature does not feel very sphere to me at all, and we are still trying to be a sphere replica after all.

Regards,
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