Battle Formations

[Enfarious]

I think for mage benefiting formations, unless they add a melee based mage sometime, they should be required to keep their distance from the target for "synergy" to take effect, and be in active mode. Choosing between passive refresh and the formation boost maybe should be something the player/party should have to consider.

OR maybe alter it so that once you take part in the battle (hit the enemy or heal/buff and ally who has and enmity) the passive refresh stops and then add a formation that gives the mages/party/specific character(s) an automatic refresh.

Agreed, I also think that they[mages] should have to be within a certain range of eachother to ensure that the "mana channels" cross properly to create the desired effect. Say 6+ yalms from the mob, and < 4 yalms from one another.

A melee mage, like blu or rdm, I would think that if they are in a proper line to be on the "mana channel" of other mages they should be able to "link" to that "channel" to also create synergistic effects.