[Request] Please Make Sanction Stay Upon Death!

So I just spent several hours grinding away to get the new bow from the Grand Companies (Serpent Sergeant's Bow, I'm in love with it... or was...) and already it's completely useless. What's really the point in using "Sanction" weapons if Sanction wears upon death? I feel cheated now that I went through all that trouble to get this bow and it's useless... Please SE, change this so Sanction does not wear upon death! I'm okay with having to go back every 3 hours to get a new application, but making it so you lose it when you die just sucks. Thank you.

Does it cost GC Seals to get a Sanction? Or is it free buff?

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Originally Posted by illriginalized

Does it cost GC Seals to get a Sanction? Or is it free buff?

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Free. gaddgafdfadg

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Originally Posted by WinnipegJet

Free. gaddgafdfadg

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lol..


Alright I was reading the dialogue with a GC NPC and made it seem like I had to exchange GC seals for a Sanction.

Since people gonna die so often at wipe on new content. I guess the bow is pretty much not good to use.

I was going to post the same thing. Sanction should'nt wear off upon death.
Also, enchanted items to manually cast sanctio when you can't return in city would be useful, like ffxi' signet staff. Something with a long cooldown obliusly

There's no winning when losing doesn't exist. Similarly, a buff isn't a buff if it's permanent. If it's permanent, it is a stat.

no what i would suggest is an Item similar to Reraise earrings in XI that gives u sanction
so that even if you lose it in combat u can still use it and if it wore off u can again use it

I would suggest that if you get a raise, sanction stays, but if you return it, wears off. If you want to make it not wear off no matter what then I would suggest making it last only an hour or an hour and a half.

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Originally Posted by Raubahn

no what i would suggest is an Item similar to Reraise earrings in XI that gives u sanction
so that even if you lose it in combat u can still use it and if it wore off u can again use it

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I like your compromise, as long as you need to refill the earrings. Or what about using anima to refill it? Or maybe even crystals to refill the sanction (similar to the skyrim enchantment system)

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Originally Posted by MrKupo

I like your compromise, as long as you need to refill the earrings. Or what about using anima to refill it? Or maybe even crystals to refill the sanction (similar to the skyrim enchantment system)

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Using anima to refill sanction would be pretty awesome actually... I think since we're stuck with it now and there's ways to recover quicker (Hamlet) we should be using anima in new and different ways!

Currently Sanction without dying lasts for 3 hours so it's not a permanent buff. And the only way to regain it is to head to your Grand Company location and have them recast it again. The issue about all of this is that not only do you need to max your ranking, but you have to spend the 6,500 seals for the item to benefit from Sanction. It will likely take someone going from Sergeant Third Class to Chief Sergeant about 5-6 hours estimating to gather up all the seals from non-stop Toto-Rak runs to get it. And that's only counting if you're successful to get a good amount of gear each run, and get to keep all the drops to yourself. Otherwise it could expand into 7+ really.

Might not seem like a big deal, but it quickly turns what should be a worthwhile investment into a complete waste of time. Why bother getting your rank up just for a weapon or shield that falls defunct soon as you bite the dust? For example, the Serpent Sergeant's Bow is +25 Critical Attack Rating, and with Sanction +45 Attack Power. With the ability to lose Sanction so easily you're better off going with the slightly weaker and much easier to obtain Gridanian Shortbow. I know there's better bows out there (Primal ones for example.) but I'm going off the fact that for something that takes time to get you'd think they'd make it a little easier to retain the bonus. Again I'm perfectly fine having to renew it every 3 hours to keep the buff.

But think about it... Doing leves or maybe out in a stronghold. Bad pull and you're dead, now you either have to:

* Spend anima to return back to your Grand Company HQ to renew it.
* Set your home point permanently at your Grand Company's city-state, use Return and wait another 15 minutes to get back.
* Run back if it's not too far out, but odds are it will be anyway.
* Forgo the Sanction bonus and keep using it as is.

It just makes the entire thing of what should be an incentive to use GC equipment an entire hassle.