Moving will be made to interrupt spellcasting at a point in time...

[Teakwood]

This is INCREDIBLY DISSAPOINTING. Is this just a half-assed way of solving the "it's too damn difficult to cancel a spell currently being cast" problem, or is this a balance issue given monsters not using ranged attacks, or? At the very least Yoshida really needs to pop out with one of his neat posts where he gives his justifications for why they're doing something. We complain about Archer being position-locked during positioning-heavy boss battles, we explain that this is completely unacceptable and causing Archer to be tactically problematic... and then the dev team turns around and slaps the entire Disciplines of Magic in the face like this.

This is the first decision from the new dev team - out of a lot that have been going back on the ideas of the old dev team that were actually interesting-but-unworkable - that really makes me go "WTF", and after finally coming within a few levels of hitting 50 on a class, I feel like I've just wasted all of my time. I'd switch to PGL given the new ability loadout except I'm fairly sure the people I'm playing with rely on me as a mage, but I do NOT relish the thought of attempting to survive the Ifrit fight while being rooted to the ground just to make sure that a Thaumaturge can't kite-solo marginally as effectively as any DoW can. >_>

[Rane]

This is the first decision from the new dev team - out of a lot that have been going back on the ideas of the old dev team that were actually interesting-but-unworkable - that really makes me go "WTF"

I agree. Thus far I've liked almost everything this new team has done. But this is a terrible idea. I've never liked stationary casting. I want to have the freedom to move! I don't want to sit there glued to one spot, watching the fight happening around me.

Please don't make movement cancel casting!