Casting spells in passive mode.

[Sephr]

Oh hey, how about it works like any other game with out of combat regeneration?

- You attack an enemy, you're in combat till it dies or it completely loses interest in you somehow (I.e. running away)
- You cast a beneficial spell on a target who is engaged in combat, you are now in combat with the engaged target.

Whilst 'in combat' mana regeneration is stopped or severly reduced (affected by stat allocation).

Is it really that hard to work this kind of thing out?

[Galka75]

/rest comand yes please. I mean. Whiout forgot the new system. In Ctive mode you dont recover ANYTHING. In passive mode you will have low rate of mp/hp recovering. And whit a new/old REST mode you will recover whit a high rate. And acelarating the weak off effect.

Iy will be lovely to see my entire party kneeling before a big a battle. Or after a hard one.

[Sephr]

/rest comand yes please. I mean. Whiout forgot the new system. In Ctive mode you dont recover ANYTHING. In passive mode you will have low rate of mp/hp recovering. And whit a new/old REST mode you will recover whit a high rate. And acelarating the weak off effect.

Iy will be lovely to see my entire party kneeling before a big a battle. Or after a hard one.

...Would it? I never saw the reasoning behind kneeling down like that? Didn't really make any sense to me.

[Galka75]

...Would it? I never saw the reasoning behind kneeling down like that? Didn't really make any sense to me.

When you do any kind of sport for a rasonable period of time, or whit a great intensity... Dont you need to stop for a seconds/minutes to rest and recover your breath and energy? Sitting on the first place you can. Or directly siting in the ground... Well np if instead keneeling meaby sitting or an anmation representing the "rest" activity.

I found it logical and whit a lot of sense.

[Nikita]

Seems interesting, I just hope that MP regenerates slowly enough that mages would appreciate a BRD (assuming they get a ballad-esque song)!

(Or RDM refresh etc etc as far as future jobs go.) :P

[Sav]

I would be overjoyed if they'd just scrap active mode altogether. But indeed we do run into the issue of MP regeneration. i.e. how and under what circumstances? I'd rather not have to kneel like in FFXI, but I suppose I wouldn't mind it that much. I can't think of anything else, to be honest.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I'm really excited about this. I can't wait to see the animations used while your weapon is away!

Probably won't even be an animation.

[Jennestia]

not gonna happen

SE hates mages

I don't know, my Blue mage, Red Mage, White Mage and Scholar are pretty damn powerful and can solo tons of NMs in FFXI. I don't feel any hate from SE.

[Razor]

not gonna happen

SE hates mages

Oh it will happen, SE will just laugh evily as they make mages jump through some new kind of hoop... Like say... Run in a hamster wheel while outside of combat to regenerate mp.

While constantly switching in and out of active mode is a cycle mages are famailiar with to gain more MP I highly doubt this is how mages were designed to be played and are just exploiting a loophole in the system. Im all for this and limited/no mp regen during combat mode.

[Sephr]

When you do any kind of sport for a rasonable period of time, or whit a great intensity... Dont you need to stop for a seconds/minutes to rest and recover your breath and energy? Sitting on the first place you can. Or directly siting in the ground... Well np if instead keneeling meaby sitting or an anmation representing the "rest" activity.

I found it logical and whit a lot of sense.

I meant the weird kneeling/praying animation, fair enough sitting to recover makes sense <_< But yeah I guess resting to recover would be cool in general, assuming it fits with their plans.