Sensuki

I'll give you a hint, they're swedish and start with a P. OTOH they would have had "disaster fund" money, slacker backer stuff and maybe $ from the deal with PE tools for Torment so, perhaps it's all self-financed ... and perhaps not.

If it wasn't clear, that's what I was implying which is why I said I understand why they did it. I just hope that it is something they get around to fixing.

I am not a big fan of it either, personally. Although I'd rather have that than combat and lock/trap XP I think.

Spell recovery time is also too long. That's a big problem atm.

Yeah hopefully they'll wake up and remove trap/lock XP

With Crackling Bolt, not only does it to crappy damage but the cast range is really really short compared to Lightning Bolt in the IE games, it's a pathetic spell atm.

I'm not going to vote again, but yeah I think late March/early April as well.

The BG2 Mage battles were one of the best things about the gameplay, however it could be done in a more elegant fashion such as "high resistance", rather than complete immunity.

100% Agree. I know why this was done, because they were having trouble with the area transitions, but you should fix your area transition code, and return the bear to it's normal size / selection circle size.

If it's a per-rest buff then it is an opportunity cost - one less spell taken from the level.

They've also massively nerfed most durations of spells in v301. They used to be really, really freaking long.

I've never played one, they're a melee controller with lots of healing surges and disables.

What I think you might have missed is that Josh designed the Fighter to play like his P&P Earthstrength Warden character from 4E, rather than a D&D Fighter, although they have a bit more damage output than his P&P char. That was never official information, it was from an SA post or a post from here.