On Summoner's New "Ability" and avatars.

[Zyeriis]

Oh dear...god....ANYTHING but Cait Sith please. Also, wrong forum.

Edit:
Cait Sith: the new reason to not invite Summoners for anything.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

There's fairly good odds that both new avatars will be astral flow only.

[Razushu]

Chances are Cait will be a regular avatar and Atomos will be a 2hour.

Although it'd be awesome if Atomos was a transport avatar, with BP: wards that teleport us and our party to one of the maws(wotG and Abyssea).

[Karbuncle]

There's fairly good odds that both new avatars will be astral flow only.

If they are just kinda shows SE is so out of touch with their playebase its laughable. But i personally don't think either will be 2hour only.

i could see maybe Atomos being 2hr only, But I don't see Cait Sith being that way. They haven't mentioned anything related to AF yet so Its good knews for me.

for the BP Timer ability, To me it sounds like what someone else said "Bloodpacts will cost a bit more MP but timer will be reduced". So long as it doesn't nerf their attack Im cool.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

But if you've seen the Cait Sith, what could they realy acomplish as an avatar. I say;
Atomos = New Odin.
Cait Sith = New Alexander.

[Leonlionheart]

I don't think Atomos would really fit into the "out and about" avatar world honestly. Maybe when you summon him you can only do blood pacts? Having him, or any other avatar honestly, be "2h only" is ridiculous. Honestly with his history in FF he'd be a giant floating mouth. Kind of ugly to attack things, but it could be done... Cait Sith on the other hand would be pretty cool to have running around with you.

[azjazo]

Would be interesting that the ability could work like "boost" say, you use the ability once and drains you 50 mp and gives you a +1 flag, you can stack these like "boost" to say +3 (150 mp spend), said boost should be able to be recasted almost intsantly

Then when you use a BP it consumes all those BPBoost to reduce the recast time, based on SMN skill (not over cap but pure skill) plus the difference in the BP cost and the mp spent from boosting.

not to trow exact numbers but say a bp cost 60 mp, and you boost it one time, thus spending 110 mp, almost twice as much as the original bp cost, then the reduction on recast time will be significant, maybe half the time plus some seconds less from smn skill

But boost that on a BP that cost 150 mp, and you are only boosting 33% of the cost this getting a lesser reduction in bprecast

this way, would make more dinamic to "store" boost before a battle, in between BPs, or while the NM is in a stance that absorbs X or Y type of damage but making the SMN spend more MP if you want to get mor dps

And would be more useful the ward pacts that nobody uses because its a waste of bp recast timer.

[Soundwave]

A new ability that expends an additional amount of MP to shorten the recast time for blood pacts.
Introducing the avatars Cait Sith and Atomos.

This new ability please allow it to function in possibly two ways

1.) When in use, drain the summoners MP depending on avatar that is out.

2.) When a selected BP is in use allow a selected amount of MP to be drained instead of a fixed number.

Thank you for more avatas however, plz no 2 hour only Atomos/Cait Sith I beg you.....

Thanks for the road map, looking forward to this.

[Worldwise]

Yeah like a baby Atomos lol!

[Karbuncle]

But if you've seen the Cait Sith, what could they realy acomplish as an avatar. I say;
Atomos = New Odin.
Cait Sith = New Alexander.

I don't really like the concept of 2 new avatars i use once per 2hours. What possible buffs could they give to make them relevant?

Even if it was say, Regain+10 or something from Cait... Woopie doo? DNC is getting a Regain ability (according to this) and COR already has one, so does SCH, which they can use freely.

I'm thinking too small probably, But PD and 1-hit KO and/or massive amounts of Damage seem rather... Fitting for 2hour abilities.

Both Cait Sith and Atomos have Combat forms IIRC, including a large (Semi-large) Array of TP moves. Its not entirely far-fetched we could see them as full-fledged avatars. Atomos However, I do agree feels more like a 2hour.

But if it is i'll be disappointed. It wasn't that bad having AF BP's tied to 2hour, but having entire avatars tied to it was kinda stretching it, but the concept was okay, giving us 4 avatars tied to it now is overkill and borderline useless crap. 1 BP out of 4 every 2hours is probably the most uselessly restricting thing i can think of in FFXI >_>