BLADE SPIRITS : Why casting them is so slow, when they are quite weaker as other Summons ?

Does anyone know what the point is, to have a Magery Summon spell such as Blade Spirits, which often new characters find themselves having to cast since they lack the skill to cast other higher Circle Summons, taking much longer to be cast, as compared to more powerfull Summons ?

They are for mages that have low skill.

If i recall they were much stronger hence the long casting time they were nerfed and the time never reduced 

Pawain said:

They are for mages that have low skill.

Indeed they are yet, how much sense does it make, for a WEAK character to stand still for such a long time before they can actually cast Blade Spirits which is also a weaker Summon as compared to other Summons taking more skill to be cast which are much faster to be cast ?

My point being, that, for a WEAK character, and for a weak Summon, its casting should be quite instantaneous, me thinks.... instead, it is much slower then other Summons which are more powerfull.... go figure.....

Always wondered about that myself.  Never use this spell because of the time it takes to cast.  Thanks for confirming it takes as long to cast as I thought when I had to use it early on in my development.

Arnold7 said:

Always wondered about that myself.  Never use this spell because of the time it takes to cast.  Thanks for confirming it takes as long to cast as I thought when I had to use it early on in my development.

What really I cannot understand, is that, since this is a low Circle spell which a weak character would be casting for lack of skill to be able to cast more powerfull summons, since it takes so long to cast Blade Spirits, this causes that a WEAK character stands still in the middle of spawn because, as we know, a character cannot move while casting a spell until that spell motion ends..., if the new character is using Protection, the casting motion would not be interrupted by the attacking MoBs and, thus, the weak character would keep taking damage unable to do anything during the spell motion which is quite long....

I mean, for a weak and new character, at least to me, it does not make much sense....

popps said:

Arnold7 said:

Always wondered about that myself.  Never use this spell because of the time it takes to cast.  Thanks for confirming it takes as long to cast as I thought when I had to use it early on in my development.

What really I cannot understand, is that, since this is a low Circle spell which a weak character would be casting for lack of skill to be able to cast more powerfull summons, since it takes so long to cast Blade Spirits, this causes that a WEAK character stands still in the middle of spawn because, as we know, a character cannot move while casting a spell until that spell motion ends..., if the new character is using Protection, the casting motion would not be interrupted by the attacking MoBs and, thus, the weak character would keep taking damage unable to do anything during the spell motion which is quite long....

I mean, for a weak and new character, at least to me, it does not make much sense....

I've explained why it works the way it does which part of the explication did you not understand? There is no need to restate your opinion as you have made it very clear simple point out what you didn't understand in my explanation 

@Mariah ; Question asked and Answered
IBTL

Might as well lump Summon Creature in there as well. Takes longer to cast and they are weaker than a demon.

Maybe we should make all spells the same strength regardless of skill? 

IBTL

No, I think the point is this one takes a ridiculous length of time to cast.  Always wondered why it took so long to cast when I could cast all higher level and more complex spells so much faster,   Thanks McDougle for the explanation.

Blade spirits have their uses still, precast in an area, 2, no fail with gm magery. Their swing speed used to be insanely fast... i remember 1-2 hits a second in early days training parry. The casting time should be halved now, or increase their swing speed back up.

Or like I just did, the Black Gate quest to get those silly virtue stones...on a new character with 96 magery casting blade spirit over and over and OVER to kill an Unbound EV....took awhile but thank you blade spirits! Hate the casting time though but yes, that spell is still used quite often.

Maybe if they read this thread they can figure out a way to shorten the casting time?  *Adds to their evergrowing wishlist*

popps said:

Does anyone know what the point is, to have a Magery Summon spell such as Blade Spirits, which often new characters find themselves having to cast since they lack the skill to cast other higher Circle Summons, taking much longer to be cast, as compared to more powerfull Summons ?

Because they are beautiful and menacing all at the same time.