Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
That's just a reason to delay using it. You're still going to use it eventually, and there are no drawbacks to that - your overdrive is going to fill to max no matter what you do.

Essentially what you're proposing is a super meter like in Street Fighter. Ask yourself this - what has deeper gameplay?

Super Street Fighter - where your super bar fills up and you do a super move when you want

or

Street Fighter 4 - where your super bar fills up, and you have a choice of using up small chunks of it to execute EX special moves, or saving it all in order to execute a powerful super move - with each strategy having its own pros and cons, depending on the player's character, his opponent's character, and the individual playstyle of the player himself.
this is a good point, but tp 5000 wouldnt be that long to get to, also the difference in SF4 is you still have access to your regular special attacks, if every special attack used tp, The move would have to be insanely godly to make up for not being able to do anything but auto attack for the entire time. Imagine SF if supers disappeared if you used any special attack.
Basically what your saying would be fine, if we had solid gameplay that didnt require tp, but seeing as how with AA we may get even less skills that dont require tp, it would seem to be a bad idea to tie it to tp.

My real problem with the tp 5k thing is, if it is good, no one will use the rest of their tp moves, if it is not good no one will ever use it. In that case it not being good is better, because playing with no tp use is fairly boring.

I look at an extra mechanic as a good thing, if its specific to class, gives different play mechanics to classes, much like in ffxi, bluemage, puppet and dancer played fundamentaly differently than other classes, whereas if you look at early ffxi, all DD were virtually the same playstyle. While they wouldnt have to build limits into that, it would be an interesting place to put it.

The thing to remeber with most FFXI limits is they existed to be used, the key was how you built it up, and when you used them. I think building it up can be an interesting game mechanic. Building up tp is not that interesting right now.