# Stellarix is stupidly overpowered. Change the 3x back to 2.1

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**Created:** [April 2, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/stellarix-is-stupidly-overpowered-change-the-3x-back-to-2-1/83770 "2024-04-02T21:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maisie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Maisie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Maisie)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/stellarix-is-stupidly-overpowered-change-the-3x-back-to-2-1/83770/8 "2024-04-02T22:10:55Z")

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> [@LummoxJR](#):
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> Increasing Stellarix’s magic boost ruined that. Against a WoS/Stellarix combo, if you don’t have a way to grab an early start and you give the enemy even a single turn, you’re _screwed_.

It’s not the magic boost that’s the problem, IMHO; it’s that Stellarix sinks all the mana it generates: it will very often self-loop through its Elemental + Umbral Star gem creation. _That’s_ the danger of giving it even one turn: once it has its turn it’s likely to loop on it until it’s wiped your team.

> [@Cosmic Dragon Rebalance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cosmic-dragon-rebalance/83001/1):
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> - To prevent these changes from going supernova, **we have increased their Mana costs by 1.**

…and there’s the problem. That mana-cost change was sufficient to constrain the single-color cosmics, but it’s _not_ sufficient to prevent Stellarix from self-looping.

Stellarix currently has a mana cost of 32; let’s compare to the next-highest mana costs:

- Daemon Gnome, mana cost 50: yeah, who cares, nobody ever uses this
- Enraged Kurandara, mana cost 35: higher than Stellarix, but it only uses 3 mana colors and it has only indirect mana gen in its spell via its doomskull creation
- Zuul’Goth, mana cost 32: same as Stellarix, uses only 3 mana colors, no mana gen
- Stellarix, mana cost 32: uses all 6 mana colors, generates all 6 colors

Stellarix has huge mana gen and can sink all the mana it generates; it should cost more to cast – maybe _significantly_ more – than Zuul and EK.

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