Suggestion: Mage weapon in active mode adds magic attack bonus

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Originally Posted by SwordCoheir

Actually doing the emote /sit starts up the regeneration immediately for some reason (I'm not kidding).

As for the OP. It's not a bad idea really, using your weapon as a medium to channel your energy and enhancing your casts sounds logical and it would give mage jobs a bit more dynamic where you can cast for the bonus, or stay passive to regenerate MP between casts. You could go a bit further and make it where being in active mode gives a bonus to all mage related stats healing, magic attack, enfeebling, enhancing potency, and magic accuracy. And why limit it to just mages, BRDs and PLDs would greatly benefit from such a bonus too since they're always active during combat.

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

Did the Devs intend mages to be able to regenerate MP while casting?

If yes:

Allow MP regeneration while in active mode.

If no: (choose one or more of the following)
Disable offensive and healing magic bonuses from stats and abilities while passive.

Increase casting and recast times of all spells by ~30% while passive.

Greatly increase enmity generated from casting spells while passive.

My guess is they didn't intend for mages to cast while passive. If they did, they wouldn't have made potions, songs, abilities etc.. that help restore MP.
Instead, they would likely have made spells generate more hate in order to dissuade mages from running too hot.

I love the idea of a bonus for being in active mode, and losing the bonus for MP refresh in passive mode. It'd have to be pretty substantial w/e it is since the refresh allows for more casts which would make up for most losses.
10% less dmg/cast but can cast 3 more spells cause of the refresh makes staying passive the better option even after the dmg loss, as a for instance.

As to being able to cast in passive mode, once upon a time we couldn't. They patched so that we could but didn't clip mp refresh while in combat for some reason. If your party is in combat should you really be able to relax enough to regain HP/MP?

I'd prefer to see active mode buffs, reduced casting/recast times, increased range, increased dmg/healing/accuracy, and the like.