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[Telford]

actually maneuvers does influence the type of elemental magic the pet may cast, I found out about this 100% when I was fighting Weak to Wind NM I dont recall it's name, the BLM pet defaulted on casting Aero V, I added 1 Ice Maneuver and still Cast Aero V, then I used 2 Ice Maneuvers and the pet switched to casting Blizzard V, still I'm unsure if this "control" only works against monsters with elemental weakness or any monsters...

this actually may turn into a serious issue once we get Thunder V, since thunder > Ice the pet will default to casting Thunder but with "ice" attachments we will be forced to use Ice Maneuvers thus forcing the pet to use Ice V instead of Thunder V..the only reason this wasn't obvious or an issue before, its because by design it was only going to affect Thunder elemental (Thunder IV specially), but in both capped level (the current one and at 75) BLM pet never had access to the next Thunder Tier magic for a long period time to make this issue apparent to players (the first cap increase we completely skipped thunder 4 to Stone V) I think we were lucky..

Adding an ice maneuver didn't cause your auto to cast an ice spell (as in adding earth maneuvers won't make it cast stone). More than likely either the recast on Aero V wasn't up so it cast the next best spell which was Blizzard V or if this was a consistent occurrence then the added int, mab/macc (depending on your attachments) from the second ice maneuver tipped the balance in blizzards favour over the bonus aero was getting from the mobs weakness.

[Bhujerba]

Adding an ice maneuver didn't cause your auto to cast an ice spell (as in adding earth maneuvers won't make it cast stone). More than likely either the recast on Aero V wasn't up so it cast the next best spell which was Blizzard V or if this was a consistent occurrence then the added int, mab/macc (depending on your attachments) from the second ice maneuver tipped the balance in blizzards favour over the bonus aero was getting from the mobs weakness.

I know about the recast, this wasn't the case, the test was done over the course of NM farming (about an hour) I even swapped Atmas and whatnot in to make sure, the pet defaulted to using Aero V (with Atma of gale..the wind one) the NM was Sharabha, as I said I dont know if this kind of maneuver influence only apply if the BLM auto tried to exploit a weakness or in general, I never cared before until that fight.