Possible Haste II, can we get some Qualitative Enhancing Buffs?

[Carth]

We have Enfeebling Magic - on our head, but it casts so fast it doesn't matter much anyways. Thankfully the Siegel Sash is a nice -8% Enhancing Magic Cast Time, but I do wish we had something with good Enhancing Magic Skill on it with some -cast time.

Just to say, 6 seconds is enough time to hit 2~3 normal macros easily, besides, idk how your Fast Cast/Enhancing looks but the body/head stay the same for me, which make up a bulk of the Fast Cast as well as alot of Enhancing on the body, at most the things you would need to change are Hands, Legs, Feet, Back, Neck, and Belt. Thats 6 items, 1 macro after you start casting, thats a total of +81, 404+81=485, merits for +16 to make 501, capped potency. Nothing to do with Windower, Spellcast, or anything else, 6 pieces of gear can be swapped from a Fast Cast build to your "Brave/Faith Build" and you will cap potency, and that Fast Cast you still have around your gear, would still be great for your recast. I did think things out before I typed out my ideas, its not that what I suggest is impossible, its just that the cast time seems to high, I understand that, if SE were to do it and its shorter, I'm more than happy to accept that, but I think they would make it weaker because you could swap between the 2 quickly, so I suggest this instead.

This is awhile back, but I feel the need to address this.

The problem with the 30s cast time isn't a problem in of itself, but it's imbalanced with the rest of your stats:

Brave
- Self Target.
- 3 Minute Duration.
- 30 Second Cast Time.
- 5 Minute Recast Time.
- Follows same equation as Temper, except the stats gained are Attack & Accuracy instead of Double Attack.
- Cannot stack with Faith.

Faith
- Self Target.
- 3 Minute Duration.
- 30 Second Cast Time.
- 5 Minute Recast Time.
- Follows same equation as Temper, except the stats gained are Magic Attack & Magic Accuracy instead of Double Attack.
- Cannot stack with Brave.

You've already solved your problem with RDMs switching back and forth between Bravery and Faith, purely by the Recast Time being five minutes(increased even further with Composure). This makes your reasoning for the high cast time rather redundant.

Even then, 30 seconds is absolutely absurd. Why is it absurd? Because that gives an insane amount of time to allow the mob to interrupt you, and makes you lose an insane amount of DPS. Not only that, but no spell in the game has a casting time as long as that.

The AM spells that BLMs use, for instance, is 17.45 seconds without any fast cast.
Stoneskin, without any fast cast, is 10 seconds.
Raise is 15 seconds.

Going even further, by making the Recast 6:25 via Composure (because no one in their right mind would cast a spell like that without it), you're more or less locking Spontaneity down to Bravery/Faith to bypass that casting time. Even further, the effect would only last for 9 minutes. For a casting time of 30 seconds and a recast time of 5 minutes to be justified, this ability easily needs to natively last for 10 minutes(30 minutes Composure).

The stats presented here made a useful ability into a tedious, complicated mess.

[Demon6324236]

Edit:Deleted everything related to the old post. Changed parts of the list of spells I would like to see. Underlining those changes here.

New Enhancing spells that I would like to see.

Haste II
- Free Target.
- 3 Minute Duration.
- Enhancing Magic Skill/50+15=Magic Haste gained, capping at 500 skill for 25%.

Brave
- Self Target.
- 3 Minute Duration.
- 10 Second Cast Time.
- 5 Minute Recast Time.
- Follows same equation as Temper, except the stats gained are Attack & Accuracy instead of Double Attack.
- Overwrites Faith.

Faith
- Self Target.
- 3 Minute Duration.
- 10 Second Cast Time.
- 5 Minute Recast Time.
- Follows same equation as Temper, except the stats gained are Magic Attack & Magic Accuracy instead of Double Attack.
- Overwrites Brave.

Stoneskin II
- Party Target.
- 5 Minute Duration.
- 10 Second Cast Time
- 60 Second Recast Time
- Follows the same equation as Stoneskin however caps at 600, and gains double potency from Stoneskin gear.
- Party members this spell is cast on, receive the full effects of any Stoneskin gear equip by the caster.
- Can be Accessioned with /SCH to effect all members in range.
- Can be Augmented with special gear to effect all party members in range.

Blink II
- Party Target.
- 5 Minute Duration.
- 6 Second Cast Time
- 30 Second Recast Time
- Enhancing Magic Skill/100=Shadows gained.
- Can be Accessioned with /SCH to effect all members in range.
- Can be Augmented with special gear to effect all party members in range.

[Mageoholic]

You want to fix enhancing, make it scale with enhancing magic...all spells. The mere fact that a /RDM can land enhancing buffs (particularly Refresh, and Haste) with the same effect as a RDM main is the problem, not the tools themselves. A BRD/RDM is better at buffing than a RDM/BRD. Why? Because /BRD skill directly influences the quality of the buff, however on the flip side, /RDM BRD receives full potency of certain "required" buffs.

|Same goes with Enfeebling, but that is for another thread.

Fix the mechanics to be more reflective of skill levels, and then talk about adding more tools, no point building a house on a foundation that has fallen apart. The mechanics worked @75, but we are not @75 now, we are at 99, this is the exact same issue we saw them fix with healing magic adjustments. Skills MUST play a part in determining the value of all buffs...and debuffs.

Until that issue is addressed you can add all the tools you want, but BRD/RDM is still going to be more useful than RDM/whatever.

[Demon6324236]

Well all of the spells I listed are built on that idea, where skill would make all the difference with its potency.

[saevel]

Haste / Refresh should get extra duration from additional skill at least.

[ManaKing]

Cough Enspells

[Ordoric]

whm hastega accecion haste rdm haste II based on skill lvl can we agree on that for ballance ?

[saevel]

Cough Enspells

Far to week, they need a significant improvement. To prevent SCH from becoming the enspell master the improvement should be a JT / JA native to RDM only. Something like Enspell damage bonus in the 2~3x range, also a large magic accuracy bonus on them as things at 100+ have some serious magic evasion.

[tyrantsyn]

I fear the Dev's would sooner take Enspells off the accession list before they give RDM a advantage to doing something better than SCH with there own JA. Even if it's our spell, it's there JA.

[saevel]

I fear the Dev's would sooner take Enspells off the accession list before they give RDM a advantage to doing something better than SCH with there own JA. Even if it's our spell, it's there JA.

Whomever said anything about letting them work AoE. Though I'm not against that idea. Honestly SCH as a job should of never been created, it's abilities should of been devided amongst the three current mages (White / Black / Red) with LA/DA/AW/AD going to RDM and most of the charge JA's going to WHM and BLM. But SE was stupid and ended up making RDM non-existent with a single job.