Spell Balance Suggestions

[icedstorm]

WHY ON EARTH DOES STYX SELF CONFUSE

IF A SPELL ACTIVELY HURTS ME AND REDUCES MY CHANCES OF WINNING A VERB, IT BETTER BE GIVING ME SOMETHING GOOD IN EXCHANGE AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Why use this spell over any other AOE? It doesn't even do good damage! IT'S NOT EVEN A PARTICULARLY LARGE AOE! IT'S ABSOLUTELY TINY SO IT'S RIDICULOUSLY DIFFICULT TO HIT

But guess who gets hit by it if you whiff it despite its size!? That's right, you! The person who cast it in the first place! And even if you do hit it, is the upside of hitting your opponent for a few thousand damage worth self-confusing?

Why wouldn't you use better spells? Like, for instance, Fall: 30x Gravity, which deals 10 damage on a much lower cooldown /and/ which slows your enemy /and/ which is easy to hit? Why not just use that? Why would you ever not use that (or another AOE spell since they're all probably better) instead of hard-to-hit, self-confusing, low-damage STYX of all things?

What an obscene spell. I'm genuinely offended by how godawful it is.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

EDIT: The best part? It's on a 40 second cooldown. 40 seconds for a tiny spell that confuses you and doesn't even do good damage. If you really want Styx to self-confuse, make it like Fog Bank and give it a tiny cooldown so you can just spread it all over the battlefield.

styx is a really good AOE, the confuse is light so it doesn trelaly bother you. It's built for people who have the CC or slow potential (insectomancey) to optimize on it. Styx also does a lot of damage and it lasts for a very long time. It lasts as long as one of those mist AOEs that you can just spam.

I use it very well and so does another certain poison user. Fall is not a good example at all because it isn't a tick damage AOE, but it's a massive fuck off spell that has been (rightfully so) nerfed into the ground

you just gotta learn how to learn how to use it my man. though idk if it is a bug that it self confuses. Maybe it was meant to who knows.