Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
Over time, we have lost the TP gauge for certain reasons, and the MP gauge is used by less and less jobs today.

The only cases where it can still feel required or impactful in the current battle system are:

- Raise tax when raising too much (healers and RDM/SMN).
- Loosely related: overhealing with GCD when things go very wrong (healers).
- Black Mage core rotation.

Magical hybrid tanks aren't and haven't been constrained by MP since Stormblood. Bard and Machinist are not using their MP for raid buffs since Shadowbringers and Stormblood respectively. SMN hasn't been focused on MP management since Stormblood.

Healer and caster rotations haven't been truly MP negative since forever.

I am genuinely curious as to what SE intends for the MP gauge, now that it seems to be slowly and surely being supplanted by various job gauges? Does it still feel warranted in the current game system? Perhaps for healers, but what about DPS jobs? It just sits there, doing nothing?
The only way I can even drain it fast enough as SMN or RDM is through a spellspeed build or doing multiple raises. And even then that is still fixed by lucid dreaming.