Feb. 14, 2012 (JST) Version Update

[Badieh]

Battle-related
Summoner
The Elemental MP Cost merit point enhancement now reduces MP cost by three points per level instead of one.
*Beginning with the next version update, merit point enhancements will reduce summoning magic recast times instead of elemental magic MP cost. (<--- Errr!?.... What does this mean? :confused:)

[Badieh]

I'm hoping this means' Spirit Elementals' recast times will be reduced by merits.

[Dreamin]

what it means is that if you had put your merits into Elemental MP Reduction, you have wasted those merit points. Thankfully, xp is so easy to come by now so you can replaced it.

Anyone else laugh when they 1st saw the official note earlier today beside me?

[Hakkuro]

In before more uproar:
Seriously, I hate it when bad translations occur in the Version Update notes. They always make me so mad!
The actual Japanese says "Casting Time", not "Recast Time".

召喚士
「精霊維持費-」で軽減される維持費を、能力値1につき-1　→　-3に変更
※次回バージョンアップ以降「精霊維持費-」は「召喚魔法詠唱時間-」に変更されます。

Summoner
Spirit Perpetuation Cost - value will be changed from 1 to 3.
*In the next version update, Elemental Spirit Perpetuation - will be changed to "Summoning Magic Casting Time -".
This is a re-iteration of what one of the mods in the JP Summoner forum said a few days ago.

[Saiken253]

oh ehm gee, just how little does SE know about how their jobs work lol...

[Dallas]

Really, did you guys miss out on the discussion the last couple weeks? Faster casting won by a landslide. (Edit: how shall I waste my 1000th post?)

[Malamasala]

Faster casting of what is the question. They can't write a clear message if their life depended on it.

All I read is that they want to let us put 5 merits into shortening the summoning animation of avatars. (Which is 10ish seconds now). And the only time this matters, is when you are solo kiting a monster in a closed space...

[Cabalabob]

yeah this really isn't clear, are they changing it to summoning magic fast cast? are they giving spirits fast cast?

either way i hope the spirit adjustments they have planned involve a reduction to the perp cost if they taking away the merits, it makes no sense that a little ball of energy costs more perp than the gods anyway...

[Malamasala]

Yea it makes me really confused. Why can't it be BOTH bonuses on the merits?

PUP can get macc+MAB or acc+att, and we can only pick one of each. Just let us have -perp and fast cast on spirits and they might even be worth using for fun.

[Dallas]

It means the same thing it has always meant. The casting timer on spirits, the one affected by smn magic and AF2 pants and day and weather, will be shortened by merits.

[Badieh]

It means the same thing it has always meant. The casting timer on spirits, the one affected by smn magic and AF2 pants and day and weather, will be shortened by merits.

That is what I am hoping they meant by that...

[Rakshaka]

It should have been spirit recast time (which still wouldn't really help much, seeing as how they don't have enough elemental magic skill to reliably land spells on any high end mobs), but I'm pretty sure it's summoning magic casting time. E.g. how long it takes you to summon something.

[Dallas]

There's a well known term for what you are pulling out of thin air: Fast Cast. Yeah... No.

[Badieh]

It should have been spirit recast time (which still wouldn't really help much, seeing as how they don't have enough elemental magic skill to reliably land spells on any high end mobs), but I'm pretty sure it's summoning magic casting time. E.g. how long it takes you to summon something.

As long as the AI of the spirits will be updated soon in the future, then I don't mind this as an update.

[Malamasala]

It means the same thing it has always meant. The casting timer on spirits, the one affected by smn magic and AF2 pants and day and weather, will be shortened by merits.

AF2 pants have different wording.

Also, spirits have a hard cap at about 20ish seconds delay reduction anyway, so unless the new merits bypass the cap, it is useless changes.

But useless changes is what defines a SMN

[Dallas]

Not completely useless when you switch to full pet:mab. Just mostly useless.

[Saiken253]

still pretty useless when they don't nuke~

[Dallas]

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