Stoneskin II

[DarkmoonVael]

Since its going to be a new spell, i am hoping they dont make it cost an obnoxious amount of mana. We will then go from waiting for individual stoneskin to be cast on party to waiting for whm mana to regen after casting absurdly high costing aoe stoneskin O.o. Other than that, can't tell you how much i am looking forward to this .

[Vorpal_Spork]

Really hoping they'll just modify the Graniteskin trait instead of giving us a new skill just for this QoL improvement.

Wouldn't prefer to allocate another hotbar slot for this skill if it's a brand new skill (but obviously I'll still will >_>).

Just stick it in a macro with stoneskin I below it. If you're in combat it'll cast 1 and if you're not it'll cast 2. It only takes one button.

[Pharazon]

Hopefully mana cost is somewhere between 0 and double that of a normal stoneskin since the idea is to cut down on the wait time when prepping for a pull. Also this will be awesome for swiftcasting in between pulls when doing speed runs or just wanting to move along faster. Cant wait!!

[DreamWeaver]

Just stick it in a macro with stoneskin I below it. If you're in combat it'll cast 1 and if you're not it'll cast 2. It only takes one button.

An excellent idea I'll keep in mind if I ever run out of hotbars to use once the expansion hits .

It's too bad you can't queue macro hotkeys like you could with normal skills, otherwise I would have Macro-ed everything attack related to <f>.

[Kyomih]

I am pretty sure the aoe stoneskin will have the same mp cost. Doesn't make any sense to have it only out of combat AND give it a higher cost. The only reason to give it more MP would have been to let people allow to cast it in combat but with a huge cost attached, imo. So it couldn't be exploited at the cost of other skills.

[Yonko]

Am I the only healer that already has a pre-battle macro for trials/Coil? This new spell will just reduce the macro from 10 lines down to 3

/micon "Protect"
/ac "Stoneskin II" <me> <wait.3>
/ac "Protect" <me>

instead of

/micon "Protect"
/ac "Stoneskin" <1> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <2> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <3> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <4> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <5> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <6> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <7> <wait.3>
/ac "Stoneskin" <8> <wait.3>
/ac "Protect" <me>

[Asheilin]

I hope its a change on Stoneskin I to be honest, that way its less bar work (in combat single target, out of combat party) AND SCH would get it too. I run alot of dungeons as sch, I'd like this QoL change too!

[Ferocious]

My only worry, how will it work for SCH? If its a separate skill and cross-skill for SCH, the problem is that SCH already has 5 must carry cross-skills. This 6th one would not have any space. If this becomes the case, I will only carry the original Stoneskin for use during combat. That's more important to me. Personally I believe party stoneskin should only be done during progression fights. If you're a competent healer, it's not needed on farm content.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

My only worry, how will it work for SCH? If its a separate skill and cross-skill for SCH, the problem is that SCH already has 5 must carry cross-skills. This 6th one would not have any space. If this becomes the case, I will only carry the original Stoneskin for use during combat. That's more important to me. Personally I believe party stoneskin should only be done during progression fights. If you're a competent healer, it's not needed on farm content.

Why would you even want to cross class this? It's not like this'll help you in any way aside from it's intended purpose: QoL change.

[Urtear]

Useful as SS2 seems to be, especially in saving time, there will sadly be that tank or 12 who won't wait for it.