Quote Originally Posted by Urthdigger View Post
Given that those two jobs are noteworthy for that, I find it likely that all other classes use personal aether for most of their power.
Tricky, that.

Though we've seen from the example of Sylphie and Sylphie's mother, that's certainly possible, we've also seen that even a gifted magus doesn't battery enough "personal" Aether to sustain their life processes through extended drawing on their own stored reserves.

Now given, people who can learn the Way of the Arcanist learn Aetherflow, which allows them to store more Aether in their selves (the mouseover for an active Aetherflow reads "Aether is gathering in the body") It's doubtful even a Heroic Arcanist (us) could long survive without extremely careful husbanding of their Aether.

I see the end result of an Arcanist running out of MP, being, a dead Arcanist, sooner or later.

But to offer a counter, I believe Arcanima to be an art of Subtlety as I mentioned above. Arcanist effects are not, for the most part, loud and showy. Through diligent study and careful refinement of formulae, the Arcanist has learned to generate maximum effect from minimum inputs.

Imagine, it doesn't take a lot of Aether to start a corruption or corrosion process... all things strive towards maximum disorder already. It only takes the right lever in the right place, to paraphrase Aristotle. Now, going the other way? Curing, Resurrection? That's a walk on the wild side, to fight against Entropy, to convince it to look elsewhere for a bit...