Magic

[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.