How do you feel about MP?

[Nizzi]

Does any job actually use MP in a slightly interesting way other than BLM? I feel like RDM, SMN and every healer are just "hit Lucid/Aetherflow/Cards/etc on CD lmao" and that's the extent of ""management"" on them all. On any healer, I'm never doing anything interesting with my MP, it's just slowly being depleted by Broil spam until I hit Aetherflow and Lucid again. I don't want it removed but other than preventing someone from just spamming GCD heals and being able to res more, what really would change if it was removed?

[QooEr]

Does any job actually use MP in a slightly interesting way other than BLM? I feel like RDM, SMN and every healer are just "hit Lucid/Aetherflow/Cards/etc on CD lmao" and that's the extent of ""management"" on them all. On any healer, I'm never doing anything interesting with my MP, it's just slowly being depleted by Broil spam until I hit Aetherflow and Lucid again. I don't want it removed but other than preventing someone from just spamming GCD heals and being able to res more, what really would change if it was removed?

pld, drk and tank!blu all have more mp management than all the healers

[Rongway]

pld, drk and tank!blu all have more mp management than all the healers

DRK maybe, but PLD's MP is an illusion--the correct choice is to spend your whole bar during Requiescat, and therefore there is no choice.

[Shurrikhan]

DRK maybe, but PLD's MP is an illusion--the correct choice is to spend your whole bar during Requiescat, and therefore there is no choice.

Indeed. Both are likewise just fancy indicators for charges shared across 3 skills. 3.33 charges for the one, 5 for the other. One should be used minimally outside of raidbuffs to avoid overcap. The other may as well not exist outside of the job's native buff (and its 3rd option is worthless even then).

[ThorneDynasty]

DRK maybe, but PLD's MP is an illusion--the correct choice is to spend your whole bar during Requiescat, and therefore there is no choice.

You don't spend all of it during req though. You also use the spells for ranged uptime (although it's true you have so much surplus MP it won't matter for the management by itself). The real reason to have MP is to make Clemency a limited resource, or at least force you adjust your rotation to maximize MP recovery instead of damage if you have to play blue healer. It's a really good feature for letting PLD have their healing capabilities without making healers completely redundant, since the more you have to step in the more severe the DPS tax gets.