While I was testing blue mage yesterday, I noticed a nice little bonus effect it had on me.

I was avoiding all places where I saw players gathering, in an attempt to not have the mobs with learnable spells spoiled. And I learned 4 new spells this way without ever following the crowds - that felt nice, and rather surprising, since it was the first day and the whole server was chasing the same mobs.

So I tried different mobs, waiting to see if they had any special attacks, especially ones with aoe markers, and for the first time I actually paid attention. The field mobs have never been very dangerous, so I've never bothered to see what they actually do while fighting them. Now I did, and for some reason that was fun! For the first time, I noticed that enemy x has a poison attack, enemy y has a stun attack, and the attack names are tailored to suit the enemy. Like the spell
acorn bomb from the treant sapling.
Not all of them were learnable, but some were, and I had a blast finding out which ones.

Not very special this, maybe, but I liked to be given a reason to pay attention to the details the devs have put into the world that would otherwise go unnoticed.