Strategems

[Vanar]

I just picked up SCH again after boxing it away for a while. After regearing and remacroing, and playing a while nuking lizards for Ice Staves with some friends, I started to think.... wouldn't it be awesome to have a counter next to your MP that monitored Strategem charges?



I know I know PS2 Limitations >.> Just a thought tho!

[Merton9999]

Yeah I'd get a bit of use out of this actually. Most of the time just using /recast in the strategem macros themselves is enough for me. I'm thinking of Immanence though, where' I'll occasionally check remaining strats manually or by typing /recast so I don't waste the first one only to find out that I can't use a second one.

You can also put /recast in a separate macro, but I don't have enough space to justify it.

[Sotek]

Better idea. Scholar just gets a permanent status effect like Dancer gets with Finishing Moves, I can't imagine that wouldn't be too difficult to implement. Though personally I'd get little use out of it, but it would be nice none the less.

[Merton9999]

Yeah put it right up there on the status bar. Thinking about it more though, I don't think I'd replace my /recast lines unless the counter included a timer too. Sometimes it makes a big difference not only how many I have left but how long until the next one recharges. Like I might not go for Immanence if all I saw was 1, but I might if I saw 1 with 5 seconds left.

[Economizer]

Better idea. Scholar just gets a permanent status effect like Dancer gets with Finishing Moves, I can't imagine that wouldn't be too difficult to implement.

Just add a number to the Light Arts / Dark Arts icons. This way it only shows up when you have Arts active to be able to use a Stratagem. SE did it with Utsusemi.

[Nikashi]

I use a /recast line on my macros for the strategems. It's usually something like...

/ja "Parsimony" <me>
/recast "Parsimony"

That'll kick back something like [Parsimony] 0:48 (4), so I've always got an idea on where my Strategem count is.