2hr Abilites (Yes Please!)? or (No Thanks!)?

[Vanguard319]

Being invincible for 30 seconds wasn't useful? Doing 5 minutes worth of attacks in 30 seconds wasn't useful? Completely healing your entire party wasn't useful?

Hate to say this, but the only useful 2 hrs were Invincible, Benediction, Chainspell, Perfect Dodge, Trance, Tabula Rasa, Meikyo Shisui, Wild Card, Hundred Fists and Astral Flow (after Alexander was made a special summon)

Mijin Gakure was only useful for a free death warp/removing weakness, Sidewinder/Slug Shot did more damage than Eagle Eye Shot, and Azure Lore was only good for a single spell. Spirit Surge was helpful in a bind, but cost you your wyvern for it's duration (possibly longer), Manafont was good, but not always useful due to casting times, Bloodweapon was only useful if you had a low delay or multihit weapon equipped, and Familiar despite lasting longer than all other 2 hrs combined would wear off if your pet died, which could happen often at high levels. The remaining ones, I don't think I ever used

In summary, only about half of the available two hours were really worth using, the rest were either mediocre or just useless. As Sorel pointed out, it created favoritism of certain jobs among players, so there was no reason to try new party setups, even when the ideal setups were unavailable. (which was one reason why you could be sitting in towns for your entire gaming session lfg)

To that end, I don't think I would want 2 hrs.