Job Trait "Quick Magic" naturally on RDM?

[Raxiaz]

This topic reeks of "Double Cast" ideas, when they weren't really double cast to begin with.

I'm personally of the opinion that Quick Enhancing would be beast. Occasional chance to instantly cast Haste, Refresh, Stoneskin, Aquaveil, Blink, Phalanx, Protect/Shell, En-spells, Bars, Sneak/Invis, etc? Sounds good to me - and most of those (save for Stoneskin) aren't affected too greatly by gear.

[Esvedium]

Yea, phalanx, enspells, and barspells are TOTALLY not affected by gear.

More fastcast, no random quickmagic. 3-5min cooldown /ja for forcing quickmagic might be interesting, though.

[Raxiaz]

Phalanx is easily reached to cap on RDM just from having capped enhancing... wtf are you talking about? Enspells you have a point about but IIRC enspell damage is calculated on hit, not on cast, you're ridiculous.

And a /ja for forcing quick magic is basically a double cast. I swear if they don't add this for RDMs between 91 and 99 I will never play RDM again, period.

[Alienmonkey]

I would stop playing rdm if they added this......

[Merton9999]

I would stop playing rdm if they added this......

Me too, if it were a random trait and not a JA.

Only Enspell II is calculated on hit, not Enspell 1. I don't bother with FC gear for enspells though, so Quick Magic wouldn't hurt those - I'd just move the potency equips before the cast. Also, I haven't tested it in a while, but I thought Phalanx cap was raised recently (last update)? Again, it wouldn't matter for Phalanx because I don't care about FC in pre-cast for it.

Either way, the effect of Quick Magic on potency is not what I'm concerned about anymore with the addition of AF3 boots, AF3+2 composure set bonus, and Est. cape. These increase enhancing magic duration significantly. If random Quick Magic applied to enhancing spells you'd either have to forget about pre-cast FC gear for the small chance of Quick Magic firing, or lose out on the extra duration. Neither is acceptable to me for Haste, Refresh, Phalanx II. Losing the pre-cast FC is more palatable, but I would by far prefer a constant reliable FC on those spells vs. a random insta-cast.

Even if they were to somehow factor in post-cast gear swaps into the insta-cast spell, I would still absolutely hate the randomness of Quick Magic being a forced job trait.

[Supersun]

Phalanx is easily reached to cap on RDM just from having capped enhancing

Caps were removed a while ago

[Alienmonkey]

Caps were removed a while ago

Yay did they really remove the cap on phalanx?!

[Neisan_Quetz]

Yes. the formula changed slightly too, Phalanx 2 isn't as bad as it used to be, depending on gear it should equal Phalanx 1 at 5/5 merits now.

[Vicious]

Random activation, no thanks. But here's a better idea that has plenty of precedent in the FF series at large:

Doublecast (Job Ability: RDM99) Recast: 10 Minutes / Duration: 1 Minute

Causes your next spell cast to be instantly recast upon completion, on the same target. If you do not possess enough MP to cast the second spell, the target is no longer valid, or you cast an incompatible spell, the effect remains active. Otherwise, the additional cast activates, and the Doublecast effect wears off (in other words, works just like Saboteur, Strategems, etc.)

Granted, the uses would be pretty limited to nukes and cures.. an alternate function that would take advantage of the incoming lv99 merits could be:

Doublecast (Job Ability: RDM99) Recast: 10~20 Minutes / Duration: 30~60 Seconds

Upon successful casting of a spell, allows your next spell to be cast instantly if it utilizes the same Skill. Does not chain, i.e. if you use it to spam nukes, only every 2nd spell will be instant, the spell must be cast at normal casting time to activate Quick Magic on the next.

..which would be a lot more useful, but maybe harder to implement, I don't know, I'm not a dev. I don't think either would be game-breaking in the least, and they'd certainly complement RDM's repertoire and general mission in-game.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

No JA should be locked at 10 minutes, it's like the stupid two-hours, it has no balance issues whatsoever to be shorter.

I would say all JA's should be recast 5 Minutes maximum.