Tartarus Sorceror
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Qaz & Allies
Do I really need to explain?
Ok, here we go.
Quaz is one of three gods (with Ru and Cheib) that sport a gradually heavier conduct, accompanied by a gradual increase of passive powers and the activation of new active abilities. Of these three gods, Ru is an outlier, because you can't backpedal on the sacrifices you made for him.
With Cheib and Quaz, you can backtrack. You lose power, and alleviate your conduct. However, you have little reason to do so with Cheib. There are two reasons for this, but they both burn down to: control. The positive aspect of Cheib's passive (pimp your apps) is fully under your control in its application: you control all Cheib-enhanced actions. Its conduct (slow) also doesn't trigger a mechanic beyond your control, like stealth failure and attracting all monsters on a level.
Quaz is the exact opposite. Your clouds appear randomly, and you have no control over them. This makes them far less reliable, and, in practice, less decisive (and fun) than Cheib's stat enhancement. And the racket triggers the stealth mechanic in a negative way, by which I mean that you attract an unknown quantity of monsters wherever you go, and you simply can't do anything about it.
Clouds also have the effect of killing your own allies. And I think that a trade could be worth doing. Disable the summoning school, make all elementals summoned by Quaz worshippers immune to clouds, cause Quaz worshippers to only summon elementals from other sources of summoning, and make Quaz clouds silent or only as loud as a melee attack. This would solve the self-destruction of god powers, and the fact that Quaz is currently the only god that rewards you if you waste piety. Magic mirrors could be like haste potions for Cheib, something that angers your god, but that you use as a calculated risk.
Option #2 is simply giving allies of Quaz worshippers cloud immunity.
I think we all agree that elemental force needs to change. The question is,"how"?
(the second question is, "who's gonna code this?", but that's for another day )