tone down fireball a bit.

[mbc]

I don't think the fireball spell is unbalanced, but I think that the reason it feels unfair is because the balance is a product of the frustrating wizard interface. It's really difficult to target a single person quickly and reliably in an environment where he isn't the only mob visible to you, which leads to a lot of self-fireballing and other mistakes.

This is kind of a side suggestion, but why not keep the fireball as a homing projectile but abandon the dumb right-click/listbox interface?

-Click 'Fireball' verb to activate fireball
-Click any tile
-The closest mob to that tile will be auto-targeted.
-If there's no target, no fireball comes out and the spell is toggled back off.