Thoughts on Ranked Cards in Aethermancer

42 days ago by MasN3

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I've been adding some ranked cards to aethermancer lately. I think ranked cards are here to stay - I like how they cause you to think more about your opponent's class's generally capabilities instead of their specific cards.

The obvious question: What base spells are expected to be ranked in the future?

Creatures: Probably never. A creature's max health is determined by its base stats, and different ranks with different base stats would not be great for the UI.

(Sorry for the formatting, I tried to make it somewhat non-terrible.)

	Fire/Water	Air	Earth
1	[W] Already Ranked.
2			Believe it or not, single target healing is more problematic design-wise than AoE healing. That's because someone could make a "protect the king" style army, with say bishop, empower, and this.
3		Perhaps, but the numbers don't line up great, This would require the Flame Wave treatment to give me the granularity I need to properly balance.	Similar problems as A6, but less severe. I have ideas on how to merge ritual of glory into this effect.
4
5
6	[F] Already ranked.	Probably never. There's really only three bot strikes you could do: 2 mana for 4+ damage, 4 or 5 mana for 5+ damage, and perhaps 7 mana for 6+ damage. That's not interesting enough to make ranked.	Similar problems as A6, but less severe. I might do it sometime, to give Chronomancer a few more toys to play with.
7
8	[W] Probably, but I'm not sure. I have some ideas, but I want to see how Stone Rain plays out first. Global sweepers in Aethermancer demand a lot of respect, and this would affect the Antimage class a lot.	Similar problems to A3 but more severe. Besides, Greater Lightning and Forbidden Lightning already cover all the ones I could make pretty well.
9	[F] Probably never - there are some design issues with the idea. If it does become ranked, the basic version would have to use a formula other than +50% rounded up to give me more granularity. Besides, ranked tornado fills a lot of the niche.		Already ranked.
10		Already ranked.
11	[F] Maybe. It's potentially doable, but there's a lot of design issues I don't have a great idea how to solve.