Pattern weaver: additional benefit to recharging spells

[Klapaucius]

I think pattern weaver needs a proper niche in the post skill refund world we now live in, to justify not just refunding it as soon as all your gems are done. The no-destruction feature is mediocre. I suggest a straight cost reduction to charging gems, so it synergises with having a lot of gems and leaning heavily on them generally.

* 2/3 MP
* -1 AP

But keep minimum AP of 1.

Potential interactions:
This would mean if you stack buffs, you can get the cost down to 2/3 of the straight cast cost.
So you could potentially charge then cast immediately for 2 AP, 2/3*base_cost+1 MP. This doesn't seem overpowered to me.

[SaltedSalmon]

How would this interact with the Spellgem Affinity Prayer Result, or the Arcane Lodestone upgrade for Transcended Factions?

[Klapaucius]

The suggestion as written would mean charging gems with an extra buff (like spellgem affinity or arcane lodestone) would cost 1 AP and 2/3 base MP

[SaltedSalmon]

Didn't recharging spellgems get changed to cost 2 AP base instead of 3 AP, since recharging at 3 AP is just stupidly overpriced?

[Klapaucius]

I see a missing word in the original suggestion, my apologies.

I intended to say 'you could potentially charge then cast immediately for 2 AP, 2/3+1 mp'. That would be 1 ap to charge, 1 ap to cast, in a situation where you have one of the other buffs to charging.