Weapon skills for mages!

[Venat]

Quelling Strike -with Magical attack would give blackmage TP. Once Blackmage reaches lets say 2000TP it can use a TP cost ability to boost there regan up to 200% speed while standing still. So from 0MP to 3000mp it takes about 2mins and with that ability it take about 1min.

[Punainen]

I don't want it to be pointless, but I would like to have a use for TP as a mage.

[NefGP]

I don't honestly see the point in giving mages weaponskills (save for jobs like RDM who are actually setup for melee combat) outside of soloing, and even then, given that you typically want to keep your distance from enemies.

The way I see it, if the WHM is forced to go and whack stuff, you're probably up the creek without a paddle. It doesn't really fit from a flavor standpoint either - your'e supposed to be a class/job that has spent all their time training in magic - your weapons are designed for enhancing your abilities, not martial warfare - that's why we have DoW.

This isn't XI - get over it.

[VoltaAsura]

^to add. Not sure why I was raging about weaponskills on mages. FFXI did have them, and tbh I remember shocking random parties being whm and melee'ing with my weapon and doing weasponskills. Also at one point, FFXIV had weaponskills, it wasn't all that bad.

[Rokien]

^to add. Not sure why I was raging about weaponskills on mages. FFXI did have them, and tbh I remember shocking random parties being whm and melee'ing with my weapon and doing weasponskills. Also at one point, FFXIV had weaponskills, it wasn't all that bad.

Yep, my friend did a whm tank once.

[Felis]

It was funny to use PGL WS on my THM in the old days.