Quote Originally Posted by Saefinn View Post
I used to main SCH in FFXI and always liked stratagems. I think for them to work in an FFXIV environment, they'll need to work more fluidly and in fairness, they kinda attempted this with Dark Knight in a more FFXIV way and I liked it, hence I went from WAR tanking to DRK tanking in HW. You'd use Dark Arts to strategically choose which abilities you want to enhance and how they're enhanced varies per skill and you can't over use it due to the MP cost. And I am sad that DRK lost that level of complexity.

I am in two minds, because whilst I like the idea of Scholar being able to enhance spells, I feel it's very much a part of its thing and I alluded to the idea in another thread, I also feel that how FFXI SCH works isn't wholly suitable for FFXIV and FFXIV's appeal is different. But the idea of having a version of stratagems appeals, if anything, they're a great idea for saving space on your cross/hotbar and we have some skills that do something similar to stratagems in game.

But I dunno if it's trying too much to be like FFXI's SCH. Which is odd to say as somebody who adored FFXI's SCH and its level of complexity. But I also agree that SCH needs more of its strategic and tactical flair. Deployment and Emergency Tactics are already attempts at this, and I think faerie choice added to its versatility. But I get the feeling this design could end up clunky.

But what if instead of trying to play with the Addendum's and Dark/Light Arts, how these played out were faerie dependent? Eos was traditionally the faerie more designed for aiding healers and Selene for utility. What if faeries granted some of these enhancements to your abilities? I don't know about the stratagem stacking as we already have aetherflow stacking, especially if reliant on certain abilities to give light/dark (as I example that could get awkward). But it could potentially be another use for the faerie gauge, your Dark or Light Arts (and whether they are light or dark depends on faerie choice) and you can spend the faerie gauge on how you enhance your spells. Interestingly, I've always felt the faeries to be our equivalent of Addendum Black/White because the purpose of Addendum was to give us access to extra spells based on our chosen art. At least, how I might think about tweaking it, but of course, my tweaks might not be somebody else's cup of tea. :P
it is a good feeling ,maybe try to post a rework of your on with that kind of fairy play style, i would sure love to read it as well.
also i made other rework posts when both selene and eos are different so you are also welcome to read them and comment as well ^^.