This is funnyFollow

Found this while looking for info on the new areas, it cracked me up, so I wanted to share it, jejejejeje.


somedumbsamurai: hey can you try to conserve your mp please?
Abrasion: umm ok, freeze takes 307 mp. ill stop with casting period.
somedumbsamurai: i just want some emergency mp incase the whm dies.
Abrasion: this isnt the dunes. plus im refreshed. i think we are ok.
somedumbsamurai: ok i asked you to conserve your mp. please conserve it.
Abrasion: conserve this!
Abrasion casts warp.

lol....that's awesome.

As BLM (lvl 55, 733 MPs) I'm annoyed when people try to explain to me how to manage my MPs... when the party has not even started (i.e. they have not witnessed yet how I manage them.)

There is the common misconception that Ancient Magic MB is a waste of MPs... which it is not if you know what you are doing (at least at level 50-55, it might change later on with III and IV elemental spells.)

Let's take an example with Ice based spells (since Distortion is a common MB at that level ranges and crabs a common mob, weak to ice.) Blizard II (77 MPs) MB hits for 340 when unresisted, while Freeze (307 MPs) MB hits for 1260. So to beat the Freeze damage would have to do 4 Blizard II MBs (288 MPs)... of course you won't get 4 SCs in a fight, plus you have rescast time, so you end up tossing different elemental spells and not getting as much damage... so you end up a) spending more MPs, b) taking more time to kill the mob. Of course you have to time your MB / SC so that it's just the amount of damage you need to kill the mob, not less (or you will get hurt) and not much more (or you might be wasting MPs.) But a good BLM will know when.

I was in a PT with RDM and BRD (and I use Apple Pie +1), we got the Freeze MB 3-4 out of 5 fights and made it to c4-5 all the time. No downtime. (Chain was lost only because of the pull had to get longer.) The puller was amazing.

We only got one SC per fight, I don't think we could have had two consistently, so we couldn't have two Bliz II MBs.

I think as long as the mages are not cause for downtime or broken chains they should be left to manage their MPs and spellcasting strategy as they see fit.

Edited, Tue Sep 28 11:19:21 2004 by JanusMTL

Ok this is just silly. When our BLM gets his ancient magic, I'll smack if he doesn't use it. LoL.. j/k. My mages know what they're doing and I'll let them do it. IF I see something that is a little off, I'll suggest an alternate method. As long as they are getting their jobs done (and my mages are unbelievable so I don't have to worry about them) I'm happy. If they opt for one huge MB at the end of a fight, or if they prefer multiple nukes, as long as they are doing their job, I won't be complaining. I'll sit behind the mob and swing my scythe and absorb, I'll let the mages worry about the mage job. :-b