Terribly annoying? I don't know about that... being able to drop ten Pred Claws in a 30-second span doesn't sound too terrible to me. Plus, with any luck the relic+2 augment will boost the duration to 60 seconds, allowing you to land twenty of them. I think this could even put SMN into the zerg territory. Imagine spamming twenty Chaotic Strikes back-to-back. Or chain-squall!
I think this is perfect, although I hope they don't think this fixes SMN's 45-second BP timer problem. It doesn't even come close. SMN still needs a decrease to the minimum BP timer down to at least 30 seconds, possibly less. When FFXI was fresh the 45 seconds made sense, because DD's could only WS every 30 seconds or so. Now DDs WS every 10-15 seconds, and SMN is still stuck at 45...
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