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Put them in their own section, called "Restoration" or something.

Regen (+1hp/tic per level): 3, 6, 9
Refresh (+1mp/tic per level): 3, 6, 9
Category Total: 4

Category total of 4 so that you can either max out your most important one and have one in the other or so that you can make it a nice even 2/2 split. Have them activate just like normal merits so that you benefit from this while on lower level jobs too.

I don't really see SE ever adding something that powerfull. Permanent +3 Auto-Refresh, especially at lvl 30, is massive.

A weaker form might see it ingame though:

Auto-Regen (1HP/tick; caps at 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% HP) (Max: 4)
Auto-Refresh (1MP/tick; caps at 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% MP) (Max: 4)

It's a minor effect, but still pretty nice.

I'd put them in the HP/MP group though, instead of a new group. Make it a Combo:12 so you can go 0/8/0/4 for all mages or 4/4/2/2 for middle road.

It would only be +3 at 75. You'd be getting +1 at earlier levels, and as SMNs and PLDs can tell you, it's hardly game-changing.

Meh, that wouldn't even make avatars perpetuation free at level 30. Sure it is strong for cure II spam or perhaps tier II nukes, but for most other things it is not going to be more than a convenience.

1 MP/tick is nothing.
2 MP/tick is nothing.
3 MP/tick is nothing.

When does it stop being nothing? Because, at some point, all those "nothings" come together and form a big "something" that makes parties much more efficient.

3/tic refresh is just a little much. It makes a far bigger difference than you may think. People spend nearly 200m on gjallarhorn which gives 4 mp/tic, getting 3/4th of that (which is actually far more useful due to always being active) for all of 6-10 hours is slightly ridiculous.

It is as always relative. If 3 MP/tick native refresh for BLM is overpowered, then why isn't 3 MP/tick refresh spell on RDM? Is it the 40ish MP cost that it has that makes or breaks the balance?

In my opinion you won't really reach any "useful" levels of auto-refresh until you are around 5-6 per tick. For example SMN + auto-refresh trait + YY robe + a refresh source. That is when it starts to become possible to rest little if all you do is spam cures. If you attempt to also use other spells like Dia II, perhaps avatars, then you'd need even more refresh.

But it also depends on job. A RDM who has cheap spells like paralyze and slow that just takes some 20 MP or so doesn't need much more than 3 MP per tick compared to a BLM that needs 150 MP per nuke. Then again more refresh for RDM and they could nuke too without feeling like they are wasting MP.

Overall I doubt you can have TOO MUCH refresh unless you end up able to main heal a party forever without every having them near death. (Which some WHMs seem able to with RDM+BRD support, i.e. about 7 MP per tick assuming an armor with auto-refresh too)

Then again, what haste is too much haste? For balance reasons with mages it seems like 15% haste is quite enough to balance it out, and further haste just make melee better. So why do we have so "overpowering" much haste in this game, but so little refresh? Are we supposed to only have a melee friendly game?

As far as Haste vs. Refresh goes, put it this way:

Take a BLM using Manafont. For its duration, the BLM essentially has "infinite" Refresh. Despite this though, he is only capable of doing a limited amount of damage during that time. There would be little to no difference between someone with a theoretical 50/tic Refresh and someone with infinite Refresh, simply due to the restrictions placed on spellcasting.

Haste (more specifically, meleeing), on the other hand, doesn't face this restriction. It continues to work on top of itself and get better and better. Because there isn't any supposed ceiling where having more of it would stop adding effectiveness (other than the theoretical 100% Haste, where you would have ZERO attack delay and things would basically die the moment they were engaged), SE had to place an artificial ceiling on Haste to limit its brokenness.

As far as SE loving melees more than mages? Of course they do. Why do you think that the best overall mage weapons, most relics and mythics included, continue to be an old set of level 51 staves?

Does anything besides like resting follow a multi-tic system? I'm not really for the idea, but I don't recall anything that does.

Exactly. Healing takes a pitance of MP compared to nuking, 3 a tick refresh = 60 MP per minute. On a regular mob that equates to about a 400 damage boost per minute(estimating like 1300 dmg T4s), on HNM/Gods whatever would be even less. Thats a very small boost.

I would definitly suport this idea for nuking but for healing jobs it would be over the top IMO

They should make a new bell that gives you 1/tic Refresh as long as you continue to ring it with /bell at least once every 3 seconds.

In order for it to work, everyone within audio range of the bell must have /bellsw turned on.

I would be happy with a hMP and hHP merit.

I would argue that as a sign that SE favors mages over melees, rather than the reverse. Because HQ elemental staves are better than anything else, you can hit a higher level of performance earlier, rather than having to wait until level 70+.

Now, if those HQ staves at level 51 sucked, and were still the best overall mage weapons, I could see that as support for your argument that SE favors melees over mages.

I'm not saying that SE doesn't favor melees over mages. But I think elementals staves does not support that viewpoint.