Magic

[Zantetsuken]

Rather than buying spells individually (FFXI style), it would be nice if spells were gained via spellbooks that were given as rewards from the guilds at each of the level benchmark missions (20, 36, 40).

Also, it would be neat if guildmarks could buy some non-essential spells for each DoM class. (eg. Scan, Invisibility, Sneak, Oil, etc..)

[Estellios]

Rather than buying spells individually (FFXI style), it would be nice if spells were gained via spellbooks that were given as rewards from the guilds at each of the level benchmark missions (20, 36, 40).

Also, it would be neat if guildmarks could buy some non-essential spells for each DoM class. (eg. Scan, Invisibility, Sneak, Oil, etc..)

Yeah I would love spells to be given as quests rather than buyable/bought with gil, especially if they are essential spells. Anyone remember the situation with Erase for the first few years of FF11?

Edit: @ Darkstar: It's not so much as many old spells were "useless" but more that a lot of spells were EXTREMELY specialized or not useful enough to see significant use. Would I have liked it if the old stuff was made to be more useful? Sure. But I significantly enjoy how things are now much more than that, and it feels more like the current ability sets have more utility and more "room to grow", so to speak. I mean look at the old unreleased ability lists, and it was just higher tiers of existing spells.

[darkstarpoet1]

Edit: @ Darkstar: It's not so much as many old spells were "useless" but more that a lot of spells were EXTREMELY specialized or not useful enough to see significant use. Would I have liked it if the old stuff was made to be more useful? Sure. But I significantly enjoy how things are now much more than that, and it feels more like the current ability sets have more utility and more "room to grow", so to speak. I mean look at the old unreleased ability lists, and it was just higher tiers of existing spells.

of course this system has more room to grow. any toddler has more room to grow than a fully grown person. i'm still not sure which spells are being talked about. sure there was a few spells that were very situational, but that is also the reason we were able to customize our bars to what was needed and very few if any were worthless. how many fire spells do you need on your bar out of the 15 abilities you have do you say ok that's a little much? just look between just fire and lightning you have 6 of your total 15 abilities.