Element Wars Chat Thread

My main concern is with "Fire" being over powered. The fact that the more members "Fire" has, the faster they can exterminate an element. Having 5 members, they can deal up to 120 points of damage while only taking 20 points of damage from Temper Snaps and Blazing Alter. With that being the case, Fire can also doubly heal themselves for no cost. 5 members can heal 40 rating and 40 MP, while spending only 15 MP on Blazing Alter and 0 MP on the Phoenix Breathes. The last thing is Nova Impact for Fire. Allowing Fire to use Nova Impact, and other moves after that during the day, can kill almost 2 elements, if they are both at full health. Nova Impact, kill one, Blazing Alter and Temper Snaps to kill another, one day for healing, then Another Element can get exterminated again. The only way I can find to kill Fire, is for all other elements to gang up on it. Fire would be strong in a one on one battle.

Onto Water. Sure Water can heal elements based on the amount of members, and negate field-abilities, which is good, but is, for lack of a better word, crappy. The fewer members that Water has, the worse it is. Sure, Undine's Sanctuary is the Saving grace of the element, but there is hardly anything else there that helps out Water.

Earth. What to say of Earth. Earth is like Water. The fewer the number of members, the worse it is. It isn't even worthwhile to use the special of Earth with only one member, and barely worth it to use with 2 members.

Darkness. Darkness may be the only element that could beat-up Fire. Darkness has some good moves, and one fairly decent healing move, and a special that can take abilities from dead elements. Fairly good, but all the same, could lead to them being overpowered. A counter to this is where all elements ganged up on Darkness and killed them.

Air. Air is kinda underpowered on a large scale, like Water and Earth. It is very difficult to use the special of Air, unless you are the last one to post in the day, and first to post the next day (essentially). It has some "okay" healing moves, but hardly any attacks that would have it able to stand up to another element in a one on one fight.

Light. Light has superb healing, which it makes up for in the lack of offense. It is pretty balanced.

Finally, Thunder. Thunder is like a balanced out Fire element. It has some decent attacks, and decent healing, but isn't too overpowered in either.

Fire: Blazing Alter also increases the amount Fire has to pay for Temper Snap, as it does double damage. Put some type of cap on the type of healing Phoenix Breathe does, either rating or MP. And other abilities can't be used the same day Nova Impact was shot off.

Water: Either increase the amount of damage Tsunami does, to 5 rating damage to 2 elements, costs 10 MP, or set the cost of Diamond Dust. Also put a set number to the amount of healing that Purification Rite does, not just 5x the amount of members in an element.

Earth: Give it some more rounded abilities for offense. It seems most of it is defensive, and that cannot lead Earth to ever win, unless every other element left it alone. And the defensive abilities, don't even heal.

Darkness: Not much to say there. All abilities seem leveled out enough that it doesn't cause too much problems, if dealt with in the right way.

Air: Make the abilities worth using. Either increase the amounts that the abilities do, or add something else. As for the Nine Heavens, seems fair, now that I look at it, as it prohibits use of the abilities in other elements for a day.

Light: Pretty balanced.

Thunder: Pretty balanced.