Weak Mounted Charge

Name: Weak Mounted Charge
Skill or Spell: Spell

Category: The Fighter
Class: Raider only
Type: normal

Effect: Can only be used while mounted. Upon casting, the caster seems to grow in strength.

The next melee attack (not including any melee ranged spells or runes, unless they directly affect the weapon, and do not deal direct damage) that the raider would land (after the use of the spell) gains bonus damage equal to the speed that the mount is currently moving at when the attack hits. EX: If you are on a charger horse (75 ft/s max), and moving at max speed, the next attack would deal a bonus 75 damage.

Action Cost: 50
Memory Slots: 4
Patience Required: 45
Word Count to Learn: 800

Maybe lower the action cost. The spell isn't very powerful (equivalent to +20% base damage on one attack for a light lance, so it could probably cost about 5 action points.

Instead of thinking about it as a proportion (because, honestly, 6/5 isn't much compared to 1), if one thinks about it in raw damage, lesser empowerment costs 6 times as much as this does to deal (generally) 25 less damage. Lesser empowerment is more adaptable, sure, but 1/6 the cost for 3/2 the effect means the cost/effect ratio is nine times better. Which is a lot. I'm actually not sure where I want to go with this just yet, but I don't think I like making it cheaper. I'm just looking at how much additional damage you get for such a small cost... I also think a higher Patience requirement (maybe circa 50?) would make sense.

Kicked action cost up to 50, and patience up to 45. Didn't bring it all the way, because lesser empowerment only requires 30, but also 60 action cost, so boosted patience by 15 and kept action cost to slightly less than lesser.

Looking good! Now we just have to deal with the super nitty-gritty stuff for this: would the "next attack" be limited to a melee attack? Limited to just attacks with weapons? Essentially, can this bonus apply to arrows shot from a bow, thrown projectiles, runes, spells, and so on? Where are those lines drawn? And okay, cool, I think that's probably good for the costs. Maybe hopefully. 

On an only marginally related note, I'm seeing some pretty nasty ways for the way the lances scale with speed to be totally abused. Leg runes that increase speed or something like that on mounts could translate into not only the speed bonus, which is already very powerful, but also a huge damage increase. So that should be interesting.

Edited to only include melee attacks with weapons, not including melee runes or spells unless they affect the weapon's damage rather than dealing direct damage.

Approved from me

And approved. Ill move it in.