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Secret of Mana Balance Spell MP Cost 1.0
by Kethinov                     Jun 2019
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This hack increases or decreases the MP cost of a wide range of spells improve the utility of useless spells and reduce the appeal of commonly overused spells in order to incentivize using a wider range of spells more often rather than the original game's propensity to result in players leaning hard on a few spells at the expense of all the others.

Specific changes:

Primm spells price increases:

- Cure Water: 2mp -> 4mp
- Fire Saber: 2mp -> 4mp
- Moon Saber: 2mp -> 4mp

Primm spell price reductions:

- Ice Saber: 2mp -> 1mp
- Defender: 2mp -> 1mp
- Speed Up: 3mp -> 1mp
- Thunder Saber: 3mp -> 2mp
- Light Saber: 5mp -> 2mp
- Lucent Beam: 8mp -> 2mp
- Lunar Boost: 2mp -> 1mp
- Moon Energy: 2mp -> 1mp
- Wall: 6mp -> 4mp
- Revivifer: 10mp -> 4mp

Popoi spells price increases:

- Energy Absorb: 2mp -> 3mp
- Freeze: 2mp -> 3mp
- Acid Rain: 3mp -> 4mp
- Gem Missile: 2mp -> 3mp
- Earth Slide: 3mp -> 4mp

Popoi spell price reductions:

- Silence: 2mp -> 1mp
- Sleep Flower: 2mp -> 1mp
- Burst: 4mp -> 2mp

Recommended companion hacks:

This hack works best when combined with some other popular hacks to better balance the spell list, such as:

- "Spell Power Tweaks" by zhaDe: Alters spell power of Popoi's attack spells to make them more proportionate to MP cost.
- "Saber Elemental Damage" by zhaDe: Makes it so elemental damage from saber spells take the victim's element into account. 125% damage to weak enemies. 75% damage to strong enemies.
- "Lower Weapon Status Infliction" by zhaDe: Reduces the chances that a weapon will inflict a status.
- "Extend Buff Time" by zhaDe: Increases time that time-based stat-enhancing spells last.
- "Acid Storm - Magic Def Down" by zhaDe: Makes Acid Storm decrease magic defense as well as physical defense.
- "Speed Up - Faster Recharge" by zhaDe: Makes Speed Up also increase the pace of stamina recharge.
- "Thunder Saber - Silence" by Queue: Causes Thunder Saber to also inflict confuse status.
- "Reduce Moon Saber Healing" by zhaDe: Cuts Moon Saber healing to 50% of damage dealt.
- "Light Saber - Balloon" by Queue: Causes Light Saber to also inflict balloon status.
- "More Useful Evil Gate" by Kethinov: Makes Evil Gate possible to use on (some) bosses but also imposes some new limitations to prevent it from being too overpowered. 
- "Herbal Boost" by Kethinov: Swaps the positions of Moon Energy and Revivifier in Primm's spell list to make the overpowered Luna elemental a bit less awesome and the underutilized Dryad elemental a bit more useful.

Important things to note:

- Apply this to an unheadered ROM.
- This hack is compatible with "Herbal Boost" but only if "Herbal Boost" is applied after this hack.