Pyromance should require a Stat

which is why getting burned for every cast of any pyro would make it balanced, even if they hae flash sweat they're still getting a little self damage which in the end helps the other guy, meh, what do I know. but yeah, I hope they fix it somehow.

What if Pyromancy just got longer recovery times? I see many good ideas in this thread by the way!

An overheat bar is good, but I still don't think its enough to balance it. The magic doesn't need to be spammed, it is technically already regulated by the attunement system and most builds are probably melee so it isn't really a weak point. I don't think anti-spamming features are going to balance it as the main thing that makes them broken is their sheer power from 1 cast.

What needs to be effected is the overall efficiency of the casts themselves.

Depends if that build-up is permanent. I say that they should be slowed, but people have already pointed out how that would just lead to fishing in PvP.

@Soris: How do you throw it to the ground if you get BS'ed before you even let it out?

I'm quite adamant on my opinion that making some sort of anti-spam mechanism is not the way to go for Pyromancy as anti-spamming is already done with attunement and it would also not be hindrance since most of these builds would be melee.

What they really need is to make all magic viable, but also introduce a bar for magic (magic, mana, magicka) that acts like stamina, the bigger and better the spell is, the longer it would take to regen/more of the bar would be used. Att could increase your slots but also increase the bar/regen time.

While we just got on that topic, I would like to say I would prefer if we switched limited castings to a limited mana bar that only regenerated at a Bonfire or every time you damaged enemies with a separate new stat dictating how much of damage is converted to mana.

There would still be limited casting, but a bar that prevents spamming of bigger spells and makes smaller spells better.