Mid-age tweak to Barrier warranted?

[Sheister]

People will always complain whatever they do. So they should do like whatever they feel like doing! Cant satisify them all!

Of course.

in the last couple of ages what made you think they'd encourage use of ops? It's all about military strength, people just didn't adapt. Wizards are a tool to cast rituals and self spells with now mainly, seems planned to me.

They talked about that in the podcasts etc.?

I agree with initial post - Utopia seems to be split between KD's that understand keeping this up is a good idea and those that has not yet realized this/or is incapable of getting a Barrier up every 5 days.

KD Rituals is an interesting new mechanic I think - but in it's current state Barrier seems too strong. For next age I'd like to see the elements of Barrier ritual split into either 2 or 4 different rituals - Duration and cost can be tweaked accordingly.

Yes, splitting this up and making people choose their defenses makes more sense. Either that or add -10% attack time to Onslaught so people feel like choosing that.

As it stands right now, barrier is more powerful and useful than Affluent (which is clearly retricted to war so that people don't whore with it, although with the other mechancis choices of this age, that restriction makes little sense to me.)