I've been playing this game since '09 on and off (mostly on) being my favorite school. I love seeing the game grow watching new worlds come out, spells, gear, etc.. Seeing a full page+ of realms full felt great, I actually didn't know whether to post this here or in the test realm discussion since I do have regular spell and the shadow pip spell changes not in the TR so I decided to throw it here but let's just get right into it. Spell damage and effect changes *just for current spells* Earthquake:Deals 450 damage and removes charms and ward from all enemies. I feel like the damage given to Mystic Colossus' nerf would better fit earthquake making it imho a solid spell giving it a nice value with it's damage per pip and with its effect and not some I would use once to look at its animation and dump the rest of the game. Minions: Different topic entirely Scarecrow: Deals 490 health steal damage to all enemies and returns half to caster.
Weird # I know but it would bring Scarecrow's damage per pip to a cool 70 which I feel would aid its feeling of being an underwhelming spell especially with how enchants work with drains.
Shadow Shrike: +50% Armor Piercing, +10% outgoing Damage, -25 or -30% Accuracy (not sure), and +10% Armor Piercing to the next outgoing Damage or Steal Spell to self and all allies after an attack is cast for 3 Rounds. I think making the drawback of shrike taking a hit to accuracy instead of healing would be a much better drawback and would make players think a bit more about if they really want to commit to it. Shadow Trickster: I have a few ideas with this one basically making it just like the boss with... *PVE and PVP* +5% Armor Piercing, +15% outgoing Damage, Trick or Treat 1 (Trick 1: Steals 1 Power Pip from the target and gives it to the caster) (Treat 1: Steals 1 Charm and 1Ward from the target and gives it to the caster) *Would probably make stun blocks immune to this effect* or *PVP* Using Shadow trickster allows for critical hits to do 200% damage, it still gives you the +25% critical rating and the -30% critical block rating, but you also get a +30-50% Incoming Damage (not sure). Trick 1
Now for where this topic could have gone into the TR discussion. These are just some simple ideas I had of how I buff them.
Mystic Colossus: Steals 1 Ward and Deals 600 or 640 damage to all enemies *not sure ultimately what I would choose, only reason I got Khrulu higher in damage is because of the ward removal before the attack which makes thinking about its damage a bit trickier* Abominable Weaver: Deals 640-760 Damage to target and -50% to the next incoming Damage or Steal Spell to self
Call of Khrulu: Deals 650 health steal damage to all enemies and returns half to caster
Glowbug Squall: Deals 840 Damage to and removes 2 positive Charms from all enemies
Rusulka's Wrath: Would have to make significantly better than Iron Sultan or nerf the latter Gaze of Fate: 350 damage + 350 school damage & +25% Global damage global Hungry Caterpillar: Deals 640-760 damage, then absorbs 800 damageto self
Fire from Above: Deals 820-900 Damage and +25% to the next 1 incoming Fire Damage Spells to target
I actually really, really like your proposals for the nerfs. The spells definitely were nerfed, but with these changes, the spells are still useable! I hope KI takes these into consideration.
school damage & +25% Global 
