ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

It's not buggy, archmages (which I assume you play ?) have a conveyance talent mastery of 1.3, which means with 4 points into the talent they get an effective level of 5.2 and thus gain the effect.

Now as for being worse I do agree, I'm pondering how to change it

I'd suggest a random phase instead of a fizzle, so you always get the basic functionality.

Also it seems that the range of the phase doesn't increase with talent level, or not enough to be noticable when plugging points into it. Perhaps it should start lower to match runes better?

Sometimes the most obvious solutions are not obvious
Thanks, done