THM(BLM) Combo's and Mages active mode

[Cer]

I too am not a big fan of how active casting worked. I didn't necessarily like the negative effects of being active and a mage. I did however think it looked better. I'll never understand why mages have an active mode or a weapon in general. The staves and wands or whatever is there to channel magic. That's the purpose of them, there should be a channeling animation. By the current logic both CNJ and THM should just have magic enhancing gloves.

I didn't like spirit dart or phantom dart at first, but that was because it A. had no animation and B. Took a long time, and was mostly just for TP. Which is pretty useless. However if you wanted to expand on that idea of turning fire into single target you could have Phantom Dart > Fire > Fira >Firaga or w/e.

I think its way too far in to make these kinds of adjustments. I just hope they make some sort of unique magic casting for each race like FFXI for 2.0. Lalafell look like they actually put effort in their casting while everyone else looks bored.