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    Player Concerned4FFxi's Avatar
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    Amaday
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    Bismarck
    Main Class
    WHM Lv 99

    Pianissimo for SCH!

    Pianissimo- limits area of effect of next song to a single target and halves its spellcasting time.

    Here's were I realized the scholar, who is supposed to be a tactican, is missing a key ability. i see GEO and BRD have similiar ways to get things done, I'm asking for the same for the job that is most tactical. A small example I will provide:

    NNI, Meeble burrows, boss fight, what have you, it can happen at anytime other
    than these but i don't really use my sch except in these two events so please
    forgive me if that's the only time I came up with the idea.

    Anyway, I'm in the middle of casting a buff like regen, I have Accession and Perpetuance up, I'm ready to cast my AOE buff. Suddenly, 1 DD takes a massive attack that puts them in the red. They just hit the top of the hate list and they are about to die if I don't do something right now.

    Boom, I cure them. DD lives...the cost? Twice the mp needed (only one DD needed to be cured, I have accession up because I was about to buff), a ton of additional unneeded hate on me now, and I'm out 1 stratagem charge. Plus, I still need to accession again, in order to resume my initial action, the buffing.

    Solution:


    Scholar, "Insert Job Ability Name here"- limits area of effect of next Accessioned/Manifested spell to a single target and does not use/cancel stratagem charge.

    Result:

    After curing the DD, i can now cast my accession/manifested spell, without it going AOE and without me losing my AOE charge, so I'm ready to do whatever I orginally intended before I was forced to respond to a different threat/concern.



    Now, I'd also like to point out, I currently play on the xbox 360...

    Since there have been no ground breaking macro fixs (still stuck with 6 lines per macro, it's 360 so I can't use windower) I have to be very inventive with my macros, stringing up to three macros just to perform one action. the problem? Using three macros consumes more time than just one macro, hence going from enhancing set to cure set and back takes longer.

    Even on a PC, you'd still get the above listed problems using windower, the hate, the lost strategim, the double mp wasted, but it's even worse on ps2/360. Thank you.

    Please like this idea so it can be implemented immediately, thank you.
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    Last edited by Concerned4FFxi; 02-22-2013 at 10:24 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Kincard
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