>I really think that BB is inline at this point, it's something that doesn't work very well on barbs for BMR, that paladins have few problems dealing with due to armor and stamina, that's hard to break through shear and SoD, and that is so hopelessly dependant on balance.

It may possibly be inline if you feel that some guilds having attack spells based on a pseudo-circle calculations is in balance. But since some guilds are forced to actually use attack spells to get better at them I feel stat based contests for spells are inherently out of balance. Hopefully when we finally get some magic gurus they can squash this oversight.

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Supreme Bunny Overlord Zairius

This issue of evasion on the defender's side (and TM on the attacker's side) being a part of SvA spells is a bug and is to be fixed. I dislike balance being a factor on the defender's side, as it makes protecting ones self from SvA spells impossible when unbalanced, and makes hitting an incredibly balanced target extremely difficult.

Also, just because there are more stats on attacker's side of the equation doesn't mean that the attacker automatically has an advantage over the defender - the defender's two stats provide as much, defensively, as the attacker's four stats do offensively.

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have all the SvA spells been reviewed and updated? I remember the GMs saying that these contested spells would be changed so that their damage potential was inline (ie. <TM)