Universal costs for spells

[CuriousCat]

Phantom strikes is possibly one of the best basics in the game, if armed had another basic of value to put in it's place then I'd be all for pushing it to be an intermediate; That said it's simply too core of a spell to the tree, so it's important to make it as awkward a dip as possible. To the extent that it'd perhaps be best if the spell was locked to actual armed weapons, but then if an armed player wanted to use a staff for some inconceivable reason - It'd penalizes them unfairly.

So my reason? It simply should be as costly and as awkward as possible for a non-armed player to pick it up.