Archs and enhancement

[ghostbuster]

Archmages no longer have access to the enhancement school.
Is it a bug or a feature ?

[darkgod]

Feature until I find what to do of inner power.
I might take it out of enhancement, dunno

[ghostbuster]

In beta7 arcane blades still have access to the enhancement school.

My opinion on this school.
Burning hands is not very useful. The fire damage is rather weak and useless for an archmage. The fire bonus is too weak. And the spell is too expensive for an arcane blade. Could be more interesting if the damage spread over a radius (say 1 at level 3 and 2 at level 5).
Earthen barrier is great and very useful for both classes.
Frost hand is a useless duplicate of burning hands. Maybe could give some elemental resistances instead.
Inner power is great!! Hope to see it back soon.

[darkgod]

Fire damage is weak for an archmage?
Well it depends how you build it but I usualy make my archmages be fire/air for attack and fire sure beats the crap out of monsters.
Flame is the single most damaging single target spell, flameshock is more for the area stun, fireflash is like an AOE Flame and Inferno just destroys stuff.
Any +%fire damage I can get my hands on, I get my hands on!

Frost hands provides ice melee damage, ergo a chance to freeze the monster you are attacking.

[ghostbuster]

I meant the *weapon* damage. Rather useless for an archmage as he does not really use its weapon (well I don't). The main reason is that hitting is far from beeing garanteed and there can be a better use of 50 mana. And for an arcane blade, 50 mana is very expensive and the small extra weapon damage is not worth it. But you're right, the fire damage bonus can be worth. But you have to choose and generally I prefer to augment other talents.

More or less the same problem for frost hands IMHO.