Too powerful? (JA Idea)Follow

i dont think it would be too powerful considering sch isnt really powerful at all lol
but it will never happen ; ;

BLU and PLD get what? I sure as anything don't have Auto Refresh II.

I was thinking more about sch's spells to make the job more unique as battle supporter to better fit into the TP burn and heavy melee base party set up. Now, rdm is a very popular mage job for almost all party lv 40 and up due to its ability to debuff, enhance and cure. Sch can also do most of what rdm can do too, but is missing some important spells such as haste, refresh, dispel and also ability like convert which allows endless MP to endure the fast pace xp party now a days. There are currently 2 jobs that can use Haste as a spell already, so giving sch haste spell is too redundant in job balancing. Refresh (magic) is what makes rdm unique, again, giving it to another mage job will not be possible, again due to job balancing. So I was thinking something like a refresh-like spell for melee (No, is not TP regain), it will be like refresh or haste or brd songs that need to be cast in cycle (or to use with sch AOE stratagem) during fights ...

certain % Attack up and Accuracy up enhancing spell for party members only
(can stack with food, Ecliptic Howl and brd songs)

and

certain % Defense up and Evasion up enhancing spell for party members only
(Overwrites Phalanx II, but stacks with Ecliptic Howl and brd songs)

However, both of these spell will not be able to stack, so you either will have atk/acc up or def/eva up status on you which maybe last as long as a haste spell duration. Of course the percentage up will need to be worth while to make them useful and reliable enough to be use at all time, just like haste spell.

Face it, SE is making FFXI easier and easier for the player now a days, like giving once were unique abilities and spell to revitalize jobs such as auto-refresh to pld, Stoneskinga to Blu and Sch, double atk/critical atk/store TP to Cor , and last but no least, creating new kinds of mobs that are geared towards TP burn set up. So adding spells like what I've recommend above will not be anymore game breaking as it is now and will bring a set of unique, yet, important spells to sch and creating a new standard line of support spell.

As if the SMNs 1-2k MP pool isn't enough?

Jeez..SMN doesn't -need- an Auto-Refresh II.

SCH does actually...think about it:

SCH has both White -and- Black Magic.

SCH functions by using -both-

SMN functions by using Avatars, it doesn't -need- to sub WHM, but it would be seen as "worthless" if it doesn't..therefore it got by for 5 -years- without "needing" Auto-Refresh II, SMNs can handle it, its kinda like THFs pissing themselves in butthurt because DNC got Dancing Edge (why wouldn't we?) and Shark Bite (again we excel in daggers, why wouldn't we?), so why wouldn't a tactical mage get Auto-Refresh II (basically)?

Thank you :)

And I'm an elvaan SMN with 1082 MP (no YY robe though, and only 2 MP merits, no staff strap XD)

Yes, we have 1000-1500 (you can't pass 2k, taru smn in the most mp gear possible caps at 1750 IIRC)

You realize how slow SMN Regen our MP? You should really try playing a smn, I'm elvaan, it takes me a good 3-5 min to regen all my mp, if not longer :/ I feel sorry for all the tarus out there. SCH however, don't have to take nearly that long.

My friend, I bow to your visionary ways:



Not quite Auto-Refresh II, but if you happen to see any numbers in the next few days, buy a lotto ticket.

Something tells me it will just be a more potent Conserve MP, as there has to be a reason SCH was given Conserve MP in conjuction with the job ability lol

Don't be upset lol, Smn's can now /sch ftw, this includes Drains/Aspir AND Cures lol.

Actually, as a friend pointed out, its more likely to be a pseudo-convert, if what it does is drain hp for a while while storing mp, then gives you the mp in one shot with a secondary use of the JA or something similar.