Interesting debate. I made my opinion on WarMasters a while back.
I am not interested in removal . All i am interested in is that for very special abilities there must be a constraint elsewhere.
The most obvious constraint would be to provide a power point sink to these spells (to induce scarcity and reduce cookie cutter builds).
The issue is that War master powers come with all the advantages and absolutely no constraints.
More speed, more health, more resistance, more strength or whatever primary attribute, no mana constraint, no power point constraint, no speed stacking constraint (as far as I know barring the cap), no resistance layer stacking constraint(as far as I know), very little cast time constraint. Added to all this, as time goes on, these powers become glutted in the game with those armies having powers having more and more advantage over an army with either less manpower and/or less warmaster capability. Because of this, bigger armies with more warmasters have few to no constraints on cooldown of powers either. They can simply chain them.
This is why I suggested my system where all Warmaster powers are on the same access level and you can only choose 2 or 3. This induces scarcity and compels players to carefully consider their choices. Separate it from the normal level 50 type progression.
This is only on the foundation level as the spells themselves would have to be modified too. Actually, modify the contra indications for using them or actually add some.
Of course, they should have only either given 1 power point per level past 50 or give no power points at all if they wanted to press on with the system they ended up with. Giving discipline points was enough. Compel scarcity in builds again. Bring thinking back and compel diversity of builds through scarcity.
Yes, yes, they have to make all spells useful. That is for another thread.
There were so many conceptual mistakes in the whole update I really wonder it it can be patched at all.
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