absorb TP?Follow

When i tried it I got very low return and then never set it again. I was thinking that at some point end-game it might prove usefull if you have the right set up and the NM you are fighting has a powerful TP move you want to try and prevent. Also I never tested this with AOE on, so you might get much better returns with this. Problem is also that without any really good THM TP move we are without anything that good to use the tp for.

Oh, I like using red lotus with my THM but I was also thinking about whether it would be worth putting on my GLA (when I get it... in a million years)

Oh sweet - this is what I was hoping to hear. I was thinking for THM... I want to equip a couple incapacitating weaponskills for soloing/duoing and thought it would be nice to get some extra TP outside of spamming dart attacks.

well... I will have a use for it when I get PUG to 22 and finally get THM up to the rank I can get absorb TP, lol

I guess I was sort of looking for a carrot. Ranking up has been a slog. I like the skills I get on THM better than CON but I still have a hard time forcing myself to actually focus on it...

yeah.... lol I know those ways but ... I just don't really enjoy doing it. That is what makes it so hard. I don't actually like doing leves that much. I miss party grinding. I was actually getting some nice SP before the patch in pickup parties (which didn't take a whole lot of hassle to get into and leave). Party grinding leves with my LS mates, however is a waaaay bigger time commitment and it takes a lot of work.

I appreciate the advice. I don't mean to whine, lol, I just hate that leves are really the only way to rank up - especially because I've been trying to rank up fisher and even more than battle jobs DoL REQUIRE leves to rank up.

Ok so I have been doing a little testing with this and with a few tweaks to my basic setup I was able to get decent numbers with this and find a use for it. I didn't tweak my stats (although I'm sure attribute points would make a difference) but I did make sure I was using it vs groups of mobs, ensured I closely monitored when I used it and set Damnation and Flashfreeze as my TP spells (I could have set second wind or something but just didnt need to). If I timed it right I could drain TP anywhere from 400-800 per mob and if I did it on Leve's (actually this is what I did all my testing on) with groups of mobs, I could fill my TP bar with one cast of the spell (not everytime mind you). Draining dead mobs didn't seem to give me any better results than when they were still standing and in fact in my experience it wasn't worth doing. The reason why? Well because by the time I had run to my next mob my tp had dropped to zero again.

So my conclusion is that Siphon TP is something worth setting if you have the right setup for it.

On a side note I did try and use it to stop some mobs doing their TP moves, however as I wasn't sure which moves were TP and which weren't it was difficult to measure its success. Mobs I fought such as Peist seemed to do their sandbreath (is this right?) front conal AOE much less, if at all, when I drained their tp at the right moment but Hedgemoles still did the 'bury themselves' aoe move no matter how many times I tried. The 1 minute timer on the spell doesnt help with this type of casting though because with a few people hitting the mob its tp will grow very quickly.

I knid of wish that we could replace Siphon TP with a TP inhibitor type of spell, or one that reduces a targets tp a little like the ones the syphid swarms have (TP Bleed?).

Anyway thats my testing so far with this spell. :)

Totally agree, but in answer to the op I was just explaining the possible uses of Siphon TP (plus Paralyze does not always stick).

Oh thats cool - I just started playing about with LNC the other day. :)

So I have siphon TP now - and I think it is GREAT! I was using it on my PUG and it works like a charm - especially in situations like leves where you have a lot of mobs in close proximity. I pull from 400-850 TP from a single mob with it, which is enough to pull a trammel as my opening move, featherfoot, evade and jarring strike!