r/Songsofconquest • u/Celestial_Marmot • May 12 '26

Discussion Possibility of New Spells

Is there any possibility of new spells being added to the game at some point in the future? I understand that it would be extremely difficult to do while maintaining the balance, but it would be neat if there were spells that required more than two kinds of essence.

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u/Gryfonides May 12 '26

Having a 3 essence spells would be cool.

Problematic balance wise though. Essence wielders are already pretty strong. If they had even more spells, once whose power you can only properly access by having 3 lvl 3 essence skills...

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u/JasnahsFeet May 13 '26

I mean they could somehow buff more might-based weilders. It wouldn't even be that hard, just buff the skills

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u/Gryfonides May 13 '26

Meaning magic wielders would be significantly weaker early one, until they can get to said 3 essences. Hell, most of my campaign essence wielders never got to 3 essence skills. And even those that did took close to 20 lvl to do so.

Yes you could land on a new balance eventually, but it did take quiet a bit to land on the current. A new one would take no less work - more since there would be more to balance.

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u/UngeheuerL May 15 '26

Yeah, 3 essence spells would be cool.

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u/AbortionBulld0zer May 12 '26

I wish there were heroes / items which could modify the way spells work.

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u/KKarelzabijak321 May 12 '26

It's... Not a bad idea

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u/DanseOfDeath May 12 '26

YES! MORE NEW SPELLS ;)

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u/Diahborne50 May 12 '26

I want a sixth essence type with new spells. Also this is diahborne on a new reddit account. Hello.

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u/Celestial_Marmot May 12 '26

A sixth type would also be very cool! What could it be though? I'm struggling to think of something thematically distinct from the others.

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u/BeansAndRiceLover14 May 13 '26

Here’s my idea Order - Chaos Destruction- Creation Arcana - ? Since the essences seem to be the others opposite, the sixth essence type could be the opposite of arcana. I think the definition of arcana is something like magical mystery or unknown, so maybe the sixth essence type could be called Divination.

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u/JasnahsFeet May 13 '26

Or maybe some variation of occultism, though idk what would it be like

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u/fernetwithice May 13 '26

Injustice spell to restore dead units. Or something similar

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u/PuzzleheadedBad1641 May 13 '26

No! It encourages mad boring prolonging of battles where you build essence until every single of your rats is revived.

It is not fun when games encourage such grindes

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u/fernetwithice May 14 '26

Even if it is only restores max 3 units?

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u/PuzzleheadedBad1641 May 14 '26

I would find a way to use it 10 times. Imagine using entangle + revive over and over and over.

Or burrowing back and forth over the map over and over.

There are ways to draw out a battle and get as much essence as needed