Change 6805
```Originally Posted : Fri Apr 03 21:27:17 2026
Posted by : Marisil
Title : Shaman QoL, Part 3
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Greetings,
All Shaman skills/songs that use materia now allow for you to
forgo explicitly specifying a materia type when you use them.
If you omit a materia, the skill/song will automatically pick
the best type for the skill/song that you have available.
This should make Shamans easier to play without having to
necessarily worry about skill/song and materia combinations.
As long as you don't spend materia like a maniac without
killing anything, you shouldn't really run the risk of running
out of materia. Of course, as has always bee the case, you
have to be killing mobs that provide the tier of materia that
your songs/skills are using, regardless of whether you specify
the exact materia or let the song/skill auto-select it for you.
There is one song that is an exception: rebirth. It has a
dynamic materia cost which makes calculating an auto-selected
materia a bit more difficult code-wise. I'll try to look into
that, but in full disclosure, there are only two materia that
give it a boost anyhow: roagmo and efantig (efantig being a
stronger boost). So just set your alias to explicitly use one
of the two and forget about it. :)
On a final note, all Shaman songs/skills that were affected by
this change have been converted to a new skill system known as
"gen_skill". All "modern" skills use this system, and we have
been slowly moving "legacy" skills into the new paradigm for,
well...a decade or two. Anyhow, I mention this because while
in theory this shouldn't cange the skill's behavior from the
standpoint of the player using it, in practice it sometimes
does. Namely, it can alter the range of the "roll" (think of
dice) of the skill level whenever the skill is used (in
comparison to what used to "roll" with the old system. So
after converting these Shaman songs/skills, don't be surprised
if things seem either underpowered or overpowered at first.
It might take a bit of playtime for me to smooth out the rough
edges.
Cheers,
Marisil
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