alteration spell tier

[forfor]

So I had a question pertaining to the spells in the alteration tier. Essentially I noticed that while tier 1 has shocking weapon for 1d4 electric damage, tier 2 has a number of identical spells for identical dice values but for different elements. Is this for balance purposes in some way? its a small thing but it just seems weird, and tiers 1 and 2 have enough utility spells that they could easily be moved around to make things more congruous.

[Hoverdog]

Shocking Weapon is actually tier 2.
There are two Weapon spells that are tier 1: Freezing Weapon which deals 1d3 rather than 1d4 damage and Unholy Weapon which does deal 1d4 damage, but negative energy, which is counterproductive when fighting rather popular undead enemies.

[forfor]

ah clearly I misread my bad XD

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what I get for posting at 4 n the morning while half asleep at work XD