Originally Posted by Taskmage  |
| Let's say over the course of 5 minutes you spend 1200 mp on spells. Conserve MP will save you about 90 mp (it's somewhat random), Auto Refresh will give you 100 mp, and Light Arts will reliably knock 120 mp off your mp costs. |
Rounding makes Light Arts not
quite that good on MP conservation. Let's say you cast Cure IV five times in that five minutes. Normal cost is 88 MP per cast, 440 total. Light Arts knocks it down to 80 MP per cast, 400 total. On Cure IV, you've saved 40 MP, not 44, and it'll be the same for every spell whose base MP cost doesn't end with a zero. (And if, by chance, you cast something that costs < 10 MP, like Paralyze, it doesn't help at all.)
That doesn't take Stratagems into account, or the usefulness of Dark Arts, or the 10% speed increase. I <3 the hell out of /SCH, but purely from an MP savings standpoint, it's probably a lot closer to a wash with Auto Refresh than it looks like on paper.