The other thread got mired in a bunch of...stuff...so I just wanted to make this in the right place to further verify that, yes, Arithmagician should have it's cost scaling reduced. Naturally, don't make it "easy", but as-is, it seems TOO hard instead of being REASONABLY hard. Mine is currently at level 4 and costs 150B, which is currently more than half of my TOTAL idols, and that cost will likely only get more and more monstrous with each level. To further validate this point, even with a 75% freeplay buff, a 50% chest package idol buff, and a 25% challenge shop idol buff, reaching the area cap with a level 4 talent only nets me an average of 2-2.5B per run. And the next level costs 150B.

Again, I don't want it to be easy, but currently each talent level bought doesn't give a reward that justifies the absurd costs. I haven't done the math for it, but my offhand suggestion is to cut the scaling (each level = previous level times X) in half so the price doesn't skyrocket so much quicker than the extra e25 pays off.

At level 6 and on my way to level 7 and and the last level will take a long time. There are room for more talents in the tree so I wouldn't change anything before that at least.

We JUST got new talents not long ago. I'd rather smooth out and balance the talents we currently have before adding even more. Adding more just takes idols away from the talents we already have, making Arithmagician even MORE difficult to work on.

That would be fine because those talents are cheap. The idol-sinks are the levelable talents.

"Pos Wrong", ha. I like that idea. Sell an item that allows a player to reduce the cost of a talent's current and later levels by....say, 10% per key used on that talent. Small enough to not be broken and need several of them to make a significant difference, but high enough that it still DOES make a difference with each use, given that it's for real money.