[Autumn]

I think book smack is a lot more fair than you might realize due to a lot of reasons, and the only change that needs to occur is possibly the one that I suggested where momentum cannot drop below 3, as the mini stun when combined with knockdown is the only oppressive part about it, however the drawbacks of book smack are VERY very present, that being:

1) Needing initative on your opponent or its worthless.
2) Being in Melee range of your opponent
3) Requiring 4m (No blitzing across the map to do it)
4) Tomes generally having low hit rate/damage/crit rate/crit damage so the book smack cannot possibly do an obscene amount of damage.

With all of these things and the counterplay you actually CAN use against it (1m movement, critical hit checks even WITHOUT fleur etc.) I'd wager this special attack doesn't actually need a nerf, and if I had to guess any better, it might be the fight that occured last night where I displayed just a margin of control with book smack on a slower target than I, with 70% hit rate and 4 initiative mind you, and those book smacks stopped the person I was facing from triggering a cherry blossom to heal.

I'd like to hear of a mage with initiative and enough hit rate to actually hit that isn't going to blow up from being in melee range of an opponent, 5m or not.