[Red Reika]

That's somewhat the problem we have. It's very hard and I'd say borderline impossible to be too unique and also balanced at the same time. I agree that spell trees need some kind of identity to their playstyle, but I don't think that type of identity should be as meta defining as being heavy on CC.

It's possible to create idendities for the spell trees by making some more based on AoE, others on beams, others on skillshots, etc. Overloading a few trees with CC and others with no so much inevitably creates the current meta we're on, where stuns just overrule everything.

Besides, if we give each spell tree a single CC only, the characters builds would be more aligned to the type of spell that tree offers adjusting to their own taste, such as someone who would rather be more of a beam user, or a close quarters short AoE'er. That, and the builds would be more IC flavored than simply meta flavored, and people would be less concerned about having a practical and 'useful' build, and more about having one that fits their character IC and the lore better, since all the spell trees would have access to the same number of CC's.

But as I said, I hope this to at least bring some discussion to the topic rather than being a hard on idea.