Quote Originally Posted by Sapphires View Post
I would guess they probably don't allow this because geo-spell luopans are stronger and being able to lay one down on a player would let you further trivialize any content where you can do supertanking mechanics (e.g. cast geo-wilt on a pld supertanking multiple AAs in DM II)
Hmmm? Indi and geo have identical potency unless you use blaze of glory or something. And you could still just plop geo-barrier on the PLD.

PLD/BLU, Cocoon, GEO-Barrier... Just how much def would that be? lol. Oh, and then after that you could still toss entrusted indi-wilt on the PLD. It'd be gimp potency, but still.

I very much doubt your thought has anything to do with the reasons behind the allowed targeting for GEO spells. More likely they were just following ye olde standard spell target rules. Debuffs target mobs, Buffs target players. And really, it's only indi spells that are an exception anyway. Since they're always self/player targeted.