[dev1010] Spirits

[Korpg]

This would be the obvious solution, but at the same time there would also be little point to being able to choose what they cast. The Avatars already can cast a few tiers of magic that the Spirits are capable of.. The Spirits have access to more magic overall, yes, but then that makes the spells the Avatars cast rather pointless. (Why bother with the Avatar which takes longer to summon, if you can cast the same magic and more with the Spirit?)

You misunderstand. Having an ability to choose the spells would make SMN a least a little more useful in procing yellow. Why you ask? Because Spirits have all spells a BLM (exception, Teir 3 -ga) and WHM (exception, Banishga II) would have. With the ability to find the element weakness of a NM, you can have a SMN help proc yellow along with the BLM, WHM, BRD, and BLU/NIN.

The fact they're autonomous isn't entirely the problem, it's that they're stupid most of the time, and that they have a ridiculously high perp cost to maintain. (Higher than that of the Avatar's, up to a certain level, which doesn't even make sense.) I'm not honestly sure what would be the ideal solution to them, but I do think lowering the perp cost (or even eliminating it) would be a step in the right direction.. Beyond that I don't know, an attack command so that you can at least choose the target they go after would be a decent improvement if coupled with a lower cost though.

You also forget that spirits also have the same defense structure as elementals. You know how hard it is to whack on an elemental with physical damage only? Technically the same (I say technically because mob damage is different than ours). Also, as spellcasters go, they don't get interrupted (as much) as a BLM when they are getting whacked off.

Reducing the perp cost is a right direction, but reducing it below current avatar levels is just silly. I mean, it is so easy to get free avatars now without doing any of the TotM starves, there is no point in having spirits cost less than the avatars now.