🚀 go-pugleaf

+1 to fire damage would be a like a character level 5 mod.  At that
point in the game a sorceress would be very happy to have it.  Maybe
scale it up one point per five levels, so +10 for character level 50. 
No, not a huge big deal, but nice on some spells.  Like having a
poison charm that adds damage, not a big deal, but nice to have.

The vast majority of the players play fairly low level characters. 
I'd guess that only about 10% of the people that own the game, have
the 70th level super characters doing 4000 damage per melee hit, or
per spell.

What I am saying is that there are so few useful mods for sorceresses,
and so, so many for the combat classes.  Ok, so tone down the damage
on spells a bit, they just upgraded the damage for version 1.08e, and
put some useful items in.

Who wants to see another staff with +1 to 20 lightning damage when you
swing it?  Or a wand, or an orb?  Or another spell caster item with
deadly strike or some other useless mod that just makes it worth more
money, so other people run to pick it up.  A staff with something like
+2 to lightning damage on spells would be far more useful and make the
game more interesting for the players.

The way I see it is, by adding these mods, game balance would be about
the same (it is always changing anyway), and the fun factor would be
higher.
- Bill

> Considering just how obscenely powerful the sorcs got in the xpack, the last
> thing they need is a way to do even more damage. And really, +1 to fire
> damage? When firewall for instance can do 4,000 damage a second, +1 more
> isn't even a drop in the bucket. Necros and perhaps elemental druids can use
> something of a boost, but it would be rather hard to boost them without also
> boosting the sorc. Most people now are calling for nerfs to the sorc(I
> personally don't agree with them, but then again I disagree with the very
> concept of nerfing), not a way to make them even more powerful.