Regarding Spellcasting, attacking, and "more" modifiers...

casters got alreday buffed heavily with spell echo and some other things, there is no need to buff them even further, buff the bad spells but not caster overall

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Antnee wrote:

casters are punished simply for being casters, whereas attackers are not

Never missing and being in range is punishment, if that punishement i want to get punished too

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Antnee wrote:

[Removed by Support] The focus here is that-- all else being equal-- casters are punished simply for being casters, whereas attackers are not.

I can agree with this. This is through incremental increases to physical attack damage and attack damage in general. New auras were a huge buff to elemental attackers. Also bows were buffed and 2 handers were buffed too. It used to be so that the base damage of spells would be the advantage of spells.