Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25926288-20160517002312

Oh, Pan did poof himself. People always get confused over Pan's magic because it's quite wonky.

Raw Power, I'd agree with Deities on top. Cora is probably weaker raw power-wise, but makes up for that with experience. I cast Cora, Zelena, and Regina as three students taking a dance class. Cora's the one who took the class a number of times. Zelena's the one that's a natural prodigy. Regina's the one that has struggles, studies hard, and all three succeed (or pass) at the same rank.

All the other witches are below them, except maybe Amara. Jafar without Amara as his staff seemed quite weak in terms of raw power, only barely surviving due to closely matched skill, speed, and manipulation.

The thing with Raw Power is that we hardly get to see it's extent. We see Ingrid's raw power and she freezes a castle town. We get a side line by Rumple saying he could easily destroy the ice wall (but we don't get to see that). Regina also didn't try to. Elsa set up the ice wall, but for all her power, she's no match for Regina. It's a wacky kind of magic system. If we skip over 4a and ignore Merlin, then the rankings would be simple as we don't have randomly large feats tossed about.

Way back when, Zelena knocking out a dozen people, breaking a protection spell, immobolizing the Charmings and then poofing away seemed huge. Even Emma's DO was reasonable. She knocked out and teleported like a dozen people (from all corners....or wherever Zelena was). Those are nice feats. Another nice set of feats I use is that Pendant Zelena immobolizes one by one and can do multiple people, where as we solely see Regina do one at any given time, and when we see Rumple and Pan and Staffed Jafar immobolize a group at once.

It's like showing power levels or skill that Regina can immobolize a single target (thus far), Amped Zelena could do multiple people, but not at the same time, and the rest doing a large wave.

Anyway on other news, I sort of hate the new magic fire CGI. Why does Zelena's fireball have to be green? Why does Rumple's now have a red tinge? Why is Regina's not purple, lol? The important questions XD