MP Regen

[Anonymoose]

I think this should be thought about with the future of the game in mind, not the present. I'm imaging battles akin to Jailer of Love, where a badly timed Passive Mode would annihilate your party, or where the spells necessary to win would consume this massive pool with ease. Endgame is not going to be a series of simply Faction NMs won by throwing enough bodies at the fight in exchange for gear barely better than Vintage.

I agree wholeheartedly with Jinrya - putting weapons away is the new kneel-heal, there's no reason it shouldn't restore MP, it's just another part of the strategy and there's no reason to drop it just because it's not the strategy you're used to. New game; New rules. Even if we avoid considering the fluidities of future content -- I switch my class often. Whether DOLing a node I'm passing, or crafting between leves/behests, if Exaltation is in cooldown and my mage is needed, I'm screwed without regen. I don't miss having to stand around waiting for cooldowns and running back to aethers when my party doesn't need to.

<sarcasm> Why not take out HP regen in passive? There's Second Wind. There's Bloodbath. If you run out of HP midfight, it's your own fault. Manage your cooldowns and hit those aethers! Then we can bring back kneeling so we can stand around and waste even more time. And then we can bring back chess piece jobs and stand around waiting for parties for hours! </sarcasm> If I wanted FFXI's rules, I'd go back and play FFXI.

I don't mean to be rude for no reason, it's just that I don't think the really whiners here are the people being "babied" by now having conveniences this games predecessor needlessly lacked, but the people too xenophobic to give new mechanics a real chance being used in their proper environment.