Talk:Simpleton's Spice/@comment-24946078-20140808231314/@comment-26476114-20170801001341

@Mxshark5 lower stats means lower scaling, lower scaling means less overall damage; it's not the spell/miracle itself being weakened &mdash; it's the player's affinity with it.

Also, since the spices lower the requirements you could kind of think of it as "dumbing-down" the spell/miracle, meaning the less understanding of it a player has, the less potent it will be. And having higher stats would be akin to having more understanding, which lets you fathom more powerful or variety of spells and or miracles.