please let mimicry draw stance out from our own job pool...!!!!

.... or just let us chose whichever role everytime we use it, need to rely on other player to change role is annoying, sometime i need to search like 5 minute to find a tank role even it was limsa lominsa

I'd definitely appreciate a more efficient method. If I happen to be playing in the early hours of the morning it can be a struggle to find people to use the ability on. Especially if I join a group and it turns out they need someone to step up as a healer or tank.

Yeah the way it works now is kinda annoying. Almost missed out on a Syrcus Tower PF because it took so long to load into a city to try and track down a healer to mimic the other day :/

It definitely should just be a stance you can switch on the fly at the beginning of a fight or some way to "store" the copies for use later.

They should at least make it so that the stance we mimic before stays after we change job.

This is something I personally dont understand. Yeah I suppose it would be more convenient if I could just pick the role, but frankly it's not something that is a big deal to me. I dont have difficulty finding the role I need between just going to Limsa or asking FC mates/friends.

I suppose for me it's like saying it'd be more convenient if the MB in Limsa was physically right in front of the Aetheryte so I dont even have to walk to it. Itd be more convenient but where its at now is plenty fine.

A simply solution would be to add a NPC for each role who you can always mimicry from in case you don't find anyone.

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Originally Posted by Melichoir

This is something I personally dont understand. Yeah I suppose it would be more convenient if I could just pick the role, but frankly it's not something that is a big deal to me. I dont have difficulty finding the role I need between just going to Limsa or asking FC mates/friends.

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My issue with it is the having to go to Limsa part :P I'm almost never in a city, and if I'm afk chilling or waiting for a queue, it's out in the world doing stuff or at my/my fc's house. And it's a very small, not extremely active FC.

So if a PF for something I wanna do comes up, and I'm off like... doing fates or whatever, I've got to teleport to a city and hope I can A) load into the city at all and B) find a healer to mimic before the group fills and we get queued inside with no tank or healer cause nobody can see what you are before you load in (and some people like to queue without asking or waiting for people to say >.>)

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Originally Posted by LeoLupinos

A simply solution would be to add a NPC for each role who you can always mimicry from in case you don't fins anyone.

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This would be good, placed somewhere convenient hopefully. Maybe too much to ask or hope for, but I'd also like it as a furniture "item" if we're gonna stick with needing to mimic from a person... Call them my apprentices, or something :P

Don't have it yet, but if it just requires a PC in the correct role start a trial account and make a character on your world. I guess that wouldn't work on PS4.

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This would be good, placed somewhere convenient hopefully. Maybe too much to ask or hope for, but I'd also like it as a furniture "item" if we're gonna stick with needing to mimic from a person... Call them my apprentices, or something :P

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Doesn't even need to be new NPCs, since there's plenty of them with different roles already around. Particularly in the various guilds.

I would be content with mimicry simply working on NPC's. I don't want them to adjust the skill at all.

I think the way it works is okay. Maybe they could make using it on monsters give you a random role so you could try to fish for one mid-dungeon in case you accidentally turn it off.

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A simply solution would be to add a NPC for each role who you can always mimicry from in case you don't find anyone.

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Outside of the Blue Mage Guild? That'd be nice. Maybe Martyn and the two Mamool Ja could each count as different roles.

Change Mimicry so that you learn a trait off of it, and also expand it while we're at it.

Basically, have it apply to more spells and split the DPS stance into three, for melee, ranged, caster. Something like ranged stance, for example, could improve the potency of those pointless single target spells that are weaker than the AoE ones...

Then, change it so once you use it it gain every role (so tank, healer, melee, ranged, caster), you learn an Enhanced Aetherial Mimicry trait. This upgrades the spell from one you use on others to gain their role, to a spell which simply cycles you through those roles.

I think that would be far more convenient and useful, while still sticking with the Blue Mage theme of going out and learning your spells. In fact, it would be nice to see a mechanism in general to learn more traits for Blue Mage, to enhance old spells that perhaps fall out of favour. Although if we're talking traits, I think XI Blue Mage has the best concept with attaching traits to spells with a means to unlock those traits by stacking spells with the same trait... Mimicry could even work in that regard too, if you set primarily healer focused spells along with Mimicry, you just get the healer stance in trait form. Likewise if you set primarily DPS or tank focused spells along with it, you'd get their stance as a trait.

I'd definitely want it changed. Rather it just toggled between the three stances and not be such a clumsy UX nightmare.

It would work well as a cycle, each time you use it it moves to the next role. DSP --> Tank --> Healer --> Off

But I want to lick strangers.

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But I want to lick strangers.

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I always felt like a parasite when I go around looking for someone to sap off of, but this takes it to a new level XD