DF Artillery Mages Noodling

[martinl]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's not. Magic is powerful at high TLs in roughly the same way it's powerful at low -- plot-destroying information spells, mind control, buffs, and utility effects. If you make artillery spells useful, you really have to deal with the overpowered stuff in magic.

If non damaging magic is really good, I don't see how having damaging magic suck is going to balance things.