My only issues with the apprentice spell book is that the warlock has no way to remove curses. I also feel the Gorgan Archer is OP for the apprentice book.

I have had several apprentice matches where the Gorgan Archer completely neutered the Warlock with Weak Counters. last night i was playing a guy, I was the wizard and the warlock ended up with 5 weak counters.

Last night I was playing as the Forcemaster versus the Warlock.

Forcemaster is equipped with Circle of Fire. Forcemaster also has her built in defense active. Forcemaster is attacked by Dark Pact Slayer.

So my question is does the damage barrier trigger even if the attack is unsuccessful because of a successful defense roll (+7d12)?

Also in this case, Dark Pact Slayer has Flame -2. Circle of Fire's Damage Barrier is a flame attack (2+d12). With the flame -2, Do I even roll for the defense barrier or do I only roll the effect die?

also, can a creature with flame immunity walk through a wall of fire with out needing to do a damage roll?

So, my understanding is that condition markers are permanent until they are removed by an outside source, or removed due to a specific action.

So last night we had a few issues arise with condition markers, primarily DAZE. (the only condition markers used in the entire game were daze and cripple, and the crippled character was dead before he would have gotten to do any thing anyway.) 

While Dazed a creature still can complete actions as normal, such as move quick strike. When making a quick strike, they roll the effect die. 7+ attack as normal. Regardless of whether attack was successful or not, daze counter is removed as soon as the attack resolves.

So why if it's dazed can it still act as normal.
Also the counter comes off regardless if the creature does anything at all.
If a creature is dazed does it still hinder?
So when the marker comes off does the creature controller pay 2 mana?
When would you have to pay the "removal cost"