SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[AlphaFox]

Well kinda with how they took DRK and forced MP to be a part of it (I dont have paladin up much but to my knowledge its only MP use is Flash up to 50?) have Dancer be a mix of TP/MP, letting the Dances and heals based off dancing consume TP while the traditional spells or such be focus on MP but have a bit higher cost to make up for the fact TP is also used.

[Nalien]

Dances consuming MP and being the primary healing kit, while its DPS kit comes from TP and throwing something like the War Hoop would work quite well IMO, yes. Just as long as they get the animation right if the attacks are still casting. Not a fan of Bard or Machinist for that (though I don't loath the animations either), but for something that is effectively a boomerang? The casting animation should be throwing it, the attack animation should go off, then the casting finishes with the Dancer catching the weapon. That would be perfect IMO. I'd hate to stand there charging up my throw... Though they perhaps don't even need to give Dancers attacks a cast time anyway.

Ugh, all this talk of Dancer as a healer is reminding me how much I loath what they did to Scholar... Musketeer => Scholar4eva! Really hope the next healer isn't another mage... There is some issue with gear, I doubt we'd see a second healer set so Dancer would be in robes which is odd, but I have no problem with that and who knows, perhaps it would motivate SE to design something that isn't a f*cking robe for future healer sets...