Quote Originally Posted by saevel View Post
I agree on the aura / sphere effect would of been nice. I can get with the idea of sharing our buffs with those within range of us.

But I have to disagree with the whole "Party Invitations" thing, we don't do PT invites anymore because we don't have XP parties. Abyssea stuff is based entirely off procing skills, RDM could have "Cure VII" and WHM would still be picked over RDM due to them having the light procs. And everything after this is either lowman "friend" stuff, or big shell stuff. We really gotta get out of the pre abyssea "6 man XP Invites" mentality. Abysea XP groups now have 2~4 people afking and some lv 40 guy opening chests, alliance leaders /sh for invites for awhile before filling up, their not being picky about who joins. The only real job discrimination happens with abyssea proc's, which is outside the scope of this discussion.

The "Spell Slot" scare is not real, at least not server side. Their talking about a limit on the PS2 memory and the fact that every additional ~anything~ takes up precious kilobits of memory. Every JA, Spell, Item, Auto-Translation, Zone and Inventory item must fit inside a very small space for the PS2 client. They've been running out of that space for a long time, they scalped the auto-translate system to make more room for new game stuff but they can't do that much longer.

So SE isn't "wasting spell slots" because there are no spell slots, just PS2 memory. The PC clients wouldn't be effected provided SE branch's the client like their recent survey suggests they'll do.
And what happens when they add more content that you cant kill with just the proc jobs? and it can't be soloed? Are you gonna ask a shell or pick up group to let you get up front and melee? Do you think they will let you? Or are you gonna wish the devs had put some time into something that made you stand out among mages instead of giving you buffs that didn't get you a DD slot?

This ability could be a lot better if it was for party members too, but aura would mean it would never get used most likely.