buffing/healing mode on Light Spirit?Follow

Whenever your light spirit isn't engaged with an enemy, it's in buffing/healing mode. If it's attacking something, it's in an offensive mode.

Buffing mode might not be the best description really. Probably better with protection mode. All spirits have it, and as soon as you get aggro it will cast a nuke in protection mode, then swap over to offensive mode. Assaulting puts it directly in offensive mode (and resets timer), while retreating puts it in protective mode (and resets timer).

In basic theory you could do the following:

/ja retreat <me>
/wait 1
/ja animated flourish <t>

to actually nuke every 25 seconds in middle levels. You just need to have meleed 10 TP and landed 1 steps first. Of course the problem is that you can't do this before level 40 SMN. If you want to do it at level 10, you need to instead sub WAR and use provoke, and that is more dangerous. You could actually just use your WHM sub and drop some heavy curaga to grab hate too, but it is just like provoke. (Curaga won't be until level 32 though)


PS. Spirits ALWAYS have access to ALL spells. They just don't cast AM on party members or random yellow mobs. If you want light spirit buffs while it is fighting, try standing behind the mob in a vertical line to the spirit and mob. I once got regen this way while I was kite-killing a NM.


I'm pretty sure if SE removed the assault = reset timer "glitch", spirits would actually be moderately useful. I don't know why they thought nukes needed twice the recast anyway, because you might as well get paralyze and NOTHING says 50 seconds of waiting between 2 paralyze is balanced.