Cannot cast spells while moving.

[Soukyuu]

Forget about any optimization with our current engine.

Most people will have about 1+ second delay before the server finally accepts you stopped/started moving, which is a matter of life and death in many situations.

Ifrit is a good example: A cura cast is 5 seconds long, if you start running on the 3rd second, the spell will likely not be cancelled, because the server gets the interrupt signal too late -> you get BBQd.

People warned against implementing this system with our current engine, knowing this would end up a major disaster.
Now it's a major stress factor in playing any mage-type job. If YoshiP cares so much about reducing player stress, why was this added?

Especially with him saying they expect only about 15% of players joining PvP and not wanting to concentrate on it too much, a separate ruleset for PvP would make more sense, if that was the motivation.

I can see how its for balance purposes. May break some bosses if you could cast + move, in other words, kiting while maintaining heals/dps.

Try kiting any boss while keeping your distance. You will still get hit occasionally because of the retarded position calculation code of crystal tools.

tl;dr:

- separate ruleset for PvP, implementation in 2.0
- PvE not crippled in the name of PvP