Quote Originally Posted by Pebe View Post
I may not be that high a conjurer, but I don't mind the difficulty, it'll make me have to use more stratedgy and conservation when casting. Instead of spamming Cure II or Cure III, i'll spam alot of Cure 1s, and use cure III in emergency. It is just like in ffxi where whms before abyssea spammed cure III, and only used cure V in emergencies. I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this because I only read up to page 4 or 5, but what about spiritbind? We all are complaining about mp costs, but doesn't that cut mp costs in half? Like I said my conjurer is not that high, so my suggestions may be off, if so please correct them, thank you o/.
no spiritbind no longer cuts the cost in half. it cost me 176mp to cast shadowseer without spitirbind......used it with and it dropped me to 127. even using spiritbind on a once every 3 minute ability was still a nice chunk of the mp. quite frankly, if you were only spamming cure as a mage before this patch you should have already given up as being a decent mage because you were horrible at that job.

the ability to fill multiple roles in the party is what people liked about the mage classes. if you needed a debuffer either could do it. if you needed a nuker either could do it. if you needed a buffer healer either could do it. now no matter what role you need filled a con with the thm affinity trait and thm decently leveled is by far the better choice. why? because if you get stuck in the battle and the other mage needs to recover mp they can fall into that role for a short time frame.