Why do we have 1000 TP? Would it be better if we had 100?

Is there any good reason as to why we have 1000 TP? Nothing in the game, as far as I know consumes a TP amount that ends in anything but 0. There is nothing that consumes 55 TP for example. We can only consume TP in multiples of 10, and we gain 60 TP per 3 seconds, which is a multiple of 10. So why exactly do we have 1000 TP instead of 100? If we had 100, we would gain 6 TP per second, and our skills would consume, 5,7,8,10,12, instead of 50,60,70,80,100,120. It would look nicer and take up less space on my 720p monitor. The only reason this is, that I can come up with is that we may get new skills that consume new amounts of TP, but will that really happen? Also we might as well count in base 12.

Because when we have 99999 HP that 100 is gonna look weird.

I'd like to add to your question. Why ONLY 1000tp? Since its in the lodestone I assume its a value that is open to change in the future. When can we see gear, food or jobs have varying amounts of tp? Because that can really help in tp heavy situations.

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

Because when we have 9999 HP

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When?

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Originally Posted by Rayinfluense

It would look nicer and take up less space on my 720p monitor.

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That one extra digit take up that much space? Wouldn't the bar size be the same?

Yeah, the bar is the same and it doesn't take up so much space actually..
It's more that I think that it looks weird to always have that 0 at the end of my TP number, since it's completely obsolete anyways.

Sounds to me like someone is afraid of big numbers.

Kind of, or more like I don't like big numbers when they're unnecessary xD

I, too, don't want to start seeing omega-level numbers.
I love that Warrior has so much HP but I don't want to start seeing 8.4 million, with damage taken being 2.6m per hit. It would literally end up being the exact same % of HP taken now, but with big numbers to help a player feel accomplished in leveling and gearing up.

There always needs to be some sort of progression, but the problem is that we're so linear now, the only progression is up. A small selection of BiS gear isn't i130, which is actually nice to see. If they can expand on this, giving us more options, I think we can avoid seeing our unnecessarily large numbers.

I would apreciate more robust TP mechanics. Allow us to manipulate it in more ways than just burning it, and a few classes/skills giving it restoration.

Ideas i've seen floated:
- Skills to use it for damage reduction (brace for impact).
- Skills to use it as a damage buff on certain types of spells (fire, earth, unaspected, etc.)
- Skills to convert TP to MP, TP to HP, TP to CP... you get the idea.
- Using TP to jump. (make jump a usable defense against more AOE types)


BL: TP is a body currency that's underutilized, when compared to MP.