Is Destiny's Gift a cheat?

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I'm really confused about this.

 

For 150 mana you get either +1 Attack, +1 Initative or +3 Hit Points.

150 mana isn't a lot in the mid to late game, especially if you focus on mana production, so this is an easy spell to use often.

 

As a result I'm really struggling to see the point in spending precious trait-points on Traits which simply add 1 or 2 Attack, Initative or a few extra hit points - for a few hundred mana I can get all three of these anyway.

 

Am I missing something, or is this spell just a bit overpowered at the moment?

 

I'll be honest - I often save up a few thousand mana and then use the whole lot to repeatedly cast this spell on one of my champions - buffing them from an average champion to a very powerful unit. I don't really consider this cheating because the game allows me to do it, but it does make a huge difference to your strength in combat, and as I said earlier it makes a lot of the trait choices seem a bit pointless.

 

Loving the beta BTW, I have already clocked up far too many hours..

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

My opinion is a big no.

By the time you have thousands of mana saved up, you have de facto won the game. Anytime I could support an infrastructure that could build up that much mana, I was just playing around anyway, and could kill off the AI at my leisure. I don't think anything is really a cheat at that point, especially small expensive bonuses to a single unit. That is probably the only time anyone uses this spell anyway, because if you are in a mana crunch these bonuses are an enormous waste of resources.