Light Spirit Targeting Guide by Kametame

The Light Spirit
A Summoner can employ the power of the elemental spirits. The Light Spirit is a very important one to have in a Summoner's arsenal. It can buff and cure the Summoner, party members, and even alliance members with the same spells of a White Mage at the same level of a Summoner. Some spells that a Light Spirit can't cast are Bar- spells (i.e Barpoisonra, Barstonra, etc.)and -ra Spells (i.e Protrectra, Shellra, etc.). The spirit can't cure or buff itself either. However, it can use Curaga spells on alliance members. In it's normal resting state, a Light Spirit will cast buffs on party members in a cycle, starting with the Summoner. However, there is a way to get a Light Spirit to cast on certain targets when wanted, which greatly improves it's versatility.

Forcing Light Spirit to Target Someone
The key to having a Light Spirit target someone as the mainstay of buffs/cures is a simple matter of positioning. Placing yourself on one side of a party member, and yourself on the other side of the member will cause the Light Spirit to target certain party members.

Examples
Example 1:

For an example, let's have a fictional two-person party. The Summoner Kametame, and the Warrior named Bob. Bob currently has no buffs. If Kametame places the Light Spirit behind Bob, and Kametame stands in front of Bob, the Light Spirit will start to cast it's buffs on Bob. Bob is happy, Kametame is happy, and the Light Spirit dies a little inside (morally, that is).

Example 2:

Let's say that Bob happens to step in a stream and a very ill-tempered Robber Crab attacked him. Bob manages to fend off the Robber Crab but is left with orange-red HP. Kametame pulls out his Light Spirit and positions it to Bob's left, while he places himself at Bob's right. Sure enough, the Light Spirit casts Cure V on Bob.

Conditions
I have not fully experimented and seen what the kinks in this targeting system are. I do know however, that the Spirit can cast spells that are sometimes redundant with this targeting system (casting Haste on a person with orange-red HP). Also remember, that the Light Spirit model should not collide with the target Player (Light Spirit cannot be inside the player for this to work).

--Blue Lotus 03:10, 30 December 2006 (EST)