Fix Blood Pact delay system

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Originally Posted by Malamasala

I'd be all game for no shared timers at all, but like 1 min cool downs on each individual pact that causes them to cost double MP if used before the cool down is over.

If you feel you need faster predator claws, pay 250 MP each. Or take it slow and pay normal amounts.

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Nice idea, but from talking to people it doesn't seem to matter the cost if we could spam the High damage BPs the other jobs would cry out that we're Over Powered.

I thought I had an epiphany about the role of spirit and avatars work division, but it was just a brain-fart. I thought perhaps SquareEnix wanted the 1min Bloodpacts because they were so "powerful" and in-between a spirit could be summoned to be a average nuker. This is were my argument falls apart. To bad SE for another missed opportunity.

Just as an aside, any changes to our spirits most likely would effect random elemental and mob summons behaviors. If we want a better nuking spirit then we will all suffer by better AI elemental mobs.

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Originally Posted by Covenant

Just as an aside, any changes to our spirits most likely would effect random elemental and mob summons behaviors. If we want a better nuking spirit then we will all suffer by better AI elemental mobs.

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pet/npc AI sucks across the board. I don't think spirits were mean't to be near the power or match the utility of avatars, lord knows what SE initially had in mind for them but it's safe to assume they decided against and left them as they are now

Or they could allow us to summon avatars and their abilities show up in our spell list and have the normal recast applied. That way you could buff and move on to something else i guess.

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Originally Posted by Fyreus

Or they could allow us to summon avatars and their abilities show up in our spell list and have the normal recast applied. That way you could buff and move on to something else i guess.

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A tiered Blood pact recast system would do the same

If Blood Pacts counted as spells instead of Job Abilities in the first place, a lot of fixes that have been applied to Summoner over the years would never have been necessary . . .

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If we want a better nuking spirit then we will all suffer by better AI elemental mobs.

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Not really. All those elemental mobs are sleepable and stunnable or silencable. Even if they insisted on spamming tier IV nukes, we'd easily prevent them.

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Originally Posted by Razushu

Nice idea, but from talking to people it doesn't seem to matter the cost if we could spam the High damage BPs the other jobs would cry out that we're Over Powered.

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I have watched other jobs take out enough normal mobs in Abyssea to exp almost by themselves. I dont understand why begrudge Smn.

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Originally Posted by Neonii

I have watched other jobs take out enough normal mobs in Abyssea to exp almost by themselves. I dont understand why begrudge Smn.

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Neither do I but they still do, people don't like pet jobs having power equal to non-pet jobs for some reason