Hm? What's this about broken drain values prismite? Is this before or after the errata?
Neither, as far as I know. I was commenting on MijRai's last post:
In Rules and Such, I did a cross-over of the spell creation rules (more to fix the current broken drain values than anything else), with input from people with more experience doing the math.
I am curious as to why he felt them broke AND how he fixed them.
If you couldn't tell, Chandra there took offense to me disagreeing with him on a point in a previous discussion, insulted me in a private message, and then blocked me without giving me a chance to clarify the situation. Don't worry about it, it's his problem, not mine.
Anyways, I, like others, felt they were broken due to balance concerns; things like Ball Lightning compared to Blast (on 284, Fireball is in the same boat as Ball Lightning, by the by); Ball Lightning does Force Physical damage with Electricity as the element for Force-1 Drain, compared to Blast, which does Stun damage and no Elemental effect at Force Drain. Meanwhile, both of the single-target LOS versions of those spells have Force-3 Drain. I don't have any other examples come to mind right now, although it is discussed (like I mentioned) in multiple threads in Rules and Such.
As far a how I 'fixed' the issue, I looked back to 4th Edition, took the spell-creation table, brought it over and adjusted the numbers for 5th Edition; Direct spells became weaker than Indirect, so they got a discount, for example. Here's the link, along with the discussion and input from other forum-goers who helped me out in balancing things.
http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=17407.msg307453#msg307453 It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing, and it works for making your own spells.