Quote Originally Posted by Arcell View Post
No one's asking for "drastic unnecessary changes". We simply want the be on equal ground with other damage classes. Why do we have MP costs on basic attacks when other classes don't? It's not like they do anything particularly special. You can't really argue it from a buff standpoint because most War class buffs and attacks that buff don't require MP. Why should Light Strike require MP when Featherfoot doesn't? Featherfoot actually has a much greater version of the same effect.

Managing MP isn't the issue either. The issue is that MP costs on these skills are unnecessary and make absolutely no sense. Why are they there? They clearly shouldn't be.

At R50 with 93 Mind I have 479 MP. Sure that's quite a bit but throw Cure II in there along with MP costs from Pummel and Light Strike and it goes pretty quick. I don't think most people playing Pugilist have that much Mind honestly. I only have it that way because I occasionally play mage classes and we haven't received the per-class point distribution yet.
I really think they are messing with pugilist for the sake of thier vision of monk, but whatever monk is, pugilist is not that. If they want to give Monk an ability that enhances light strike, but makes it cost mp, or cost mp itself, thats fine, if they want to make mind a good secondary stat for monk, ok whatever. But it really has no place on pugilist, and no place on basic attacks. If they want it to have a mana cost, give it a reason, make it make sense within its on class mechanics, and compared to other jobs.