nerfed mages and screwed enmity o_o

[Coglin]

One of our GLAs who is very experienced (played FFXI since launch) found that the best way to gain hate was for him to just cure someone. However, post patch he only has enough MP for 3 cures. War Drum, Warmonger, Provoke II, Disorient, etc do absolutely nothing.

I mention that he's very experienced just to emphasize that he knows the game and battle mechanics, it's just bad emnity control post patch.

Stygian Spikes was not used I sespect? It has a very highly underated usefullness.

[Reika]

Stygian Spikes was not used I sespect? It has a very highly underated usefullness.

I always use stygian spikes too, but it does no good if monsters dont hit you with NORMAL melee attacks, or dont hit you at all since enmity is hard to hold, and it does no good if the Ogre boss uses TP moves far more than melee moves, since still we dont get MP increases from anything but normal melee auto-attacks. Running out of MP is still easy.