guard's treants

[IlPalazzo]

I think it has much more offensive potential than defensive, because while youre playing defensively you got a teleport point near you anyway. But it can help getting back into combat faster once you died etc.. But if more people are afraid of this we could only allow to teleport to the guard, not from.

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Scouts rune carving got a jump at level 3. I doubt that its that difficult to balance. Each level should get a noticable but not superstrong upgrade, wheres the problem? Besides i fail to imagine gradually increasing the amount of spawned treants from 2 to 3 over 5 levels :oops:

Throw it in a beta and see how it turns out?

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Well, if you create a skill that gives 5 different advantages each level and you deem in underpowered or overpower, you have to re-examine the skill at each level (Is Level 1 too powerful? Is Level 2 too underpowered? Should we switch Level 3 with Level 4?). Placing it as one bulk and gradually increasing in a 20%/40%/60%/80%/100% fashion it makes it simpler to make changes because you can change the whole skill at once instead of parts of it. It's also easier for newer players to grasp which skills are more useful rather than looking at each individual skill as 5 different upgrades... Either way works I suppose, but just looking at the game I thought that was the general logic behind it.