Well guys, we should make a thread to call the attention to this fix...

Please roll back the changes to mana ticks under UI (Umbral Ice) buff.

The change was unnecessary, sure, it will fix flare double casting (which wasn't THAT great anyway). But it is NOT the way to go.

Flare glitch should have been fixed a different way (for example, make it consume mana the moment it becomes a succesful cast, this would also fix the latency issue where transpose would take you to UI, and then flare hit after returning you to AF with no mana and no transpose, or where Convert would give you the mana back before Flare consumed it, leaving you again with no mana and no cd).

New mana ticks break the synergy black mages used to have, now we are just silly normal casters, and we have to waste time, in a boring way, waiting for the mana tick, and if we want to be efficient just ridiculously keep track of the clock timer and sycn with it so we can know when our ticks will hit.This ruins part of the black mage experience, where one would learn to time yourself with your spells, knowing exacly when you would get your mana since the time you casted that blizzard spell.

So please all those Black Mage fellows out there, let's unite together for our common interestes.


P.S.: It would be nice to know wether taking advantage from UI3 and AF3 to cast TWO spells of the opposite aligment in half the tiem was intended or not, and if they plan to bring this back, as it gave us a nice niche, having us cast two fire spells or blizzard spells in a row when switching "stances (UI3/AF3) in order to maximize our damage.

And wether this was fixed on purpose or got broken with the fix to how AF3 and UI3 react. Was this in fact caused by Flare exploit (where a player would cast a second flare under the 2x cast speed buff for a an actual hit with the damage buff from AF3 given by the first flare, by timing the UI3 tick so it hits after flare consumes mana)? If this is the case, then again the fix should have been implemented in a dfiferent way. This way breaks our synergy as class overall.