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    Shurrikhan's Avatar
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    Tani Shirai
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    Cactuar
    Main Class
    Monk Lv 100
    Rez and heals cost MP. All else is effectively net neutral or even positive given Lucid on CD, which is noticeably different from before TP's removal (at which time even purely maximally MP-efficient spell casting was at least mildly net negative).

    Meanwhile, MP on DRK is just 3.333 charges shared across EoS, FoS, and TBN, and MP on PLD is just 5 charges shared across its every spell, each with CDR from certain skills.

    There is otherwise no difference between one exclusive pool of resource and another unless one uses both and is therefore forced to rotate or balance between skill categories.

    By lore, every attack thrown by anyone with an inkling or martial practice utilizes aether, which is identically depleted by physical and magical actions. By lore, the chief differences lie only in transiently deposited energy/potential, differing between the body's "channels" and its actual muscles and that aether can be sacrificed to conduct yet more potential through said channels (sacrificing a bit of internal aether to draw far more environmental aether through oneself), but even that magical distinction varies with discipline and the game has never and most likely will never create any gameplay related to that distinction. Instead, you have net neutral with bloat button and net neutral without, with any actual resource management replaced by, in essence, reset-on-death charges of Rez, Conf combo, Edges, or Fire casts.
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    Last edited by Shurrikhan; 01-20-2025 at 04:07 PM.