Originally Posted by
ForsakenRoe
Not who you were asking, but I can speak to my SGE idea. Basically each of the 'augmentation skills', Soteria, Pankardia, Zoe and Krasis would cost big MP (I had it at 1000, adjust for balance as needed). The 'manual choice' in this situation is that, if you need AOE healing but you're low on MP, do you have time to Kardia each person individually for a couple of shots, do you use the other Augments to make this faster, do you use Pankardia to get everyone at once albeit at the price of 'you can't augment the strength of the ticks at all' or is there just not enough time, you've screwed up somewhere earlier and ran yourself out and now have to resort to a GCD that loses you damage (but doesn't cost MP because it's your 'i screwed up' button)
Ty's idea had the 'effects' be seperate, distinct GCD attacks, but the general thinking is the same as mine, iirc. I was just a lot more conservative on adding new buttons, and focused more on retooling 'the ones we have'.