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Author: Yerushalmi

Nov 12th 2013 at 12:16:55 AM

@MorningStar1337:
The idea that a version of the same spell that does more damage will be of higher level is not an example of FridgeLogic, it's just common sense. This trope is when the greater-damage version of the spell is placed at a higher level, and ''that very fact'' feeds directly into the spell to make it even stronger. The Tera version of the spell does more damage - but do all Tera spells automatically have, say, a lower miss rate than Regular spells? If so, why must all Tera spells do more damage? Shouldn't you be able to place a spell at Tera level just to take advantage of the lower miss rate, while being otherwise identical?

In other words, and I'll be putting this language in the main text because it makes things simpler:

The logical direction should be as follows: 
* The spell is stronger
* Therefore the spell takes more energy to cast
* Therefore it is ''probably'' more useful. 
But this trope is when the direction is reversed:
* The spell is more useful
* Therefore it automatically takes more energy to cast
* Therefore it is automatically stronger.