Discussion about recast timers

[Neptune]

I wasn't mocking you. It was a serious question.

Maybe you should assess your serious question. Why did you ask me how many other games let you change jobs?

the only real issues i have is when changing to a craft to repair gear for others it resets my timer. if i have the level required it'd be nice to just have a repair slot in your gear that doesn't change your class in the field, but allows you to make repairs without changing off your job.

the only other thing i'd like to see is all of the jobs 15 min abilities be on a set timer. if i have 3:30 left on my timer for benediction and change to black mage i'd still have 3:30 on my burst instead of the entire 15. it would stop abuse that way since i would have already went through the 15 min cooldown even though it was through a combination of 2 different jobs.



i haven't tested to see if it's still the same, but it was if you had raise in different spots in your action bar it would reset even if it was on the other class. like if cnj had it in spot 1 and arc had it in spot 10 it would reset, but if they both had it in spot 1 it didn't reset. that could be part of the reason some says it resets and others say it doesn't.

try testing that and see if that helps, but like i said it may have been changed, but an idea to try.

^^^ I think we have a winner here. I vote this for compromise. Although I don't see why recast timers shouldn't be abolished.

yeah, i'm not a programmer so idk how hard that'd be to implement either, but it seems like something that would be a good compromise. it would stop the abuse by making people wait the 15 minutes even if it was across multiple classes.

I am a programmer, and it would take maybe 1 day to change how the timers work. They probably could just add variables to the object that stores actions and abilities to implement darkstarpoet's suggestion, or it would be even faster to just abolish the recast timers entirely.