what's wrong with judgement?

As we all know, balance has some of the weakest spells in the spiral. Life can heal, death can steal health, ice has good defence, fire and storm can dish out massive hits and myth summons minions.

And they all have their own stronger attacks. In balance, the best school spells are spectral blast  (random and (for me) mostly happens an ice attack. It is not reliable when you fight bosses who happen to be from one of the elemental schools, cuz chances are you'll end up wasting pips) and hydra. Hydra is a pain to buff (aside from elemental blades and traps, you need THREE balance blades. hexes and feints to deal fatal blows). That leaves one prized spell- judgement.

For some reason, some people don't realize that since there is no obvious shield called BALANCE SHIELD balance has an unfair advantage and they whine about it all time in some other sites (plz google for more info). However, it is the same as not having a storm shield for example when your first school is life and your second is myth. True, you can get one for one training point from the fairgrounds, but there are spells to weaken judgement too- like spirit armor, weakness, tower shield, ice armor and plague. Though tower shield has the disadvantage of taking 5 training points for non ice wizards, it has the advantage of shielding from any school. If 5 trainig points is too much, you can always use treasure cards, item cards or spend three training points on weakness.