Buying scrolls is not feasible.
I am a Thaum and I eat 4 buff slots with Swell Left, Swell Right, Swell Brain, and Transpose.
The problem is that some of the buffs, like Transpose, are in the primary bar and not the secondary, leading to this essential self-buff being overwritten.
As it stands if you get any random priest in your party you are basically going to be overwritten with buffs you don’t even remotely need.
Paying 4k+ for 3min to prevent someone elses stupidity, outright refusal to abide by the conditions of limiting which buffs the party casts, or not speaking the same language (International TOS) is not a feasible alternative. In a standard 30min run you’ll spend 40k to make sure your buffs are not overwritten.
Likewise it cannot be argued that you can simply “right click the buff bar” to prevent your buffs from being overwritten. I mentioned in an earlier post that every 10 seconds my Transpose was in danger of being overwritten, I had even stopped casting my team buffs just trying to give me time to right click all the troll spam players cast, and I still wasn’t successful. I was standing still right clicking more than I was actively participating simply because other players didn’t stand to lose anything but efficiency while overwriting buffs whereas I stood to be instagibbed by their random buff chains. Nobody gives a ■■■■ if they overwrite someone’s party buff that gives +40 damage, but I care when my entire class election and build revolves around being able to safely maintain Transpose and give the party 600+ MATK/PATK. So while they bounce around and cast a random reflect shield I have to stop everything and right click frantically before the next spam buff wave comes.
Despite mentioning since last cbt that I wasn’t going to carry around Daino scrolls again I still find myself being forced to spend on them. I’m nearing 1m invested in the scrolls alone. As a support class I contribute to reaching the buff limit; imagine what lv600 will look like when every player has 4+ buffs that don’t suck to bring to the party?
OP, it’s been mentioned countless times before, but I am still and will always be in agreement. At the very least some skills need to be re-evaluated as to which slot they fill. Transpose should undoubtedly be one of those skills that is moved.