Please let mage 's active mode become more useful.

[Alise]

I think that it look silly on how you never pull your rod/wand up in fighting at all as a mage. With the current battle design, it is best to stay on passive mode and just have your rod/wand hanging in your body ,never even need to touch it.

So.. I would think that it would be cool, if SE can balance this out and allow mage to use active mode in a fight too. (Mage doesn't have much to do in a fight currently.) I can understand that in patch 1.19. SE has an temporary fix for mage to be able to cast spell in passive mode. I think it is good addition, however, I don't think it is good to make "passive mode spell = as strong as = active mode spell" Passive mode suppose to be better in term of "I need as much regen as I can" instead if "this is the only best mode"

It doesn't necessary to be like my idea. But I think some good examples which is make sense and make active mode useful:


"At active mode, mag potency and heal potency become 15% higher"
(Make mage to go active mode before casting spell, and rest in passive mode for mp regen)

or

"Only at active mode that your weapon status will become useful"
(I think this is very make sense. In most people image, wizard won't have power grant from rod if he just put the rod hang over his back)

or

"Let phantom dart become mage 's auto-attack"
(I think this is only make sense because mage has TP skill too.)


Please like this thread, if you think that mage 's active mode should be somewhat useful.

[SuzakuCMX]

Only use I found for it was to get enough TP to use Second Wind so I could save some MP on not using Cure every few encounters.

[Alerith]

And like this post if you realize that the number of likes on an OP is not conclusive of the player communities overall opinion.


On topic:

An increase in potency for spells in active mode would be a very good addition. Hell, give the mages back their "dart" attacks that have a status effect attached to them, increasing potency further.

[Alise]

On topic:

An increase in potency for spells in active mode would be a very good addition. Hell, give the mages back their "dart" attacks that have a status effect attached to them, increasing potency further.

Yes, just add that phantom dart auto-attack idea in the OP. I think it only make sense to have that on active mode.

[Alerith]

Yes, just add that phantom dart auto-attack idea in the OP. I think it only make sense to have that on active mode.

I do not agree with making it an auto attack, unless it's designed to be toggled so you can turn it off without leaving active mode.

[Tibian]

I don't really agree with active mode being better, but I think something needs to be done in general to the mage "stance."

Standing ho hum not doing anything to regen MP is ridiculous. This is a huge crutch on overall fight design. "Lets make x spot for where mages can stand the entire fight to regen mana." This isn't exciting and its counter-intuitive to what mages should be about.

A large number of mage complaints stem from the fact that we burn through mana and then have to regen it. If we continually regenned mana based on stats this wouldn't be an issue.

/rest /sit in a variety of MMOs have been used before, including XI. I think we need to see this awful "stand around and do absolutely nothing" tactic be eradicated. Then you don't need "active mode" to be anything super special. If we had more MP to do more things, we could have better active abilities (like shielding people from incoming damage, or boosting our own healing potency with a consistent mana drain).

I do support the ranged auto wanding/darting though. Expecting mages to melee is like expecting a warrior to cast fire and have it mean something...

[Kailea_Nagisa]

"Let phantom dart become mage 's auto-attack"
(I think this is only make sense because mage has TP skill too.)

for the love of god no, there is a reason why Ranged attacks of any kind are not auto.......

keep it auto attack melee or give them Phantom Dart back and make it a clicky click attack.

about the two modes though..... maybe....

passive = less mana and less potency
active= normal mana and normal potency

it should be kept simple, but at the same time be a big enough difference to want to swap between the two modes.

[DeadRiser]

I'm tired of even having a TP bar just for Second Wind. What's going to be the use of it on mages when jobs come out? We can't cross class skills and abilities, so what will be the point?

[Arcell]

for the love of god no, there is a reason why Ranged attacks of any kind are not auto.......

Why is that exactly? I thought for Archers it was because arrows are a consumable item. That wouldn't be an issue for mages.

[DeadRiser]

On a side note, I don't see why we can't regen MP while in active mode. If we haven't done anything in, let's say 5 seconds, then you start regening MP.

Looking at the picture that was posted by the team


Why can't we regen MP like the white mage is standing. At least you look like you are doing something.