Manafont (Final Fantasy XIV)

Manafont
(マナフォント, Manafonto?, lit. Manafont)
Icon(s)
Availability
Obtained	Taking the Black
Required	Black Mage 30
Classification
Type	Ability
Skillset	Job action
Effect	Restores 30% of maximum MP
Specifications
Cast time	Instant
Recast time	180 seconds (oGCD)
Range	Self
Related pages
Recurring appearance	Manafont (Black Mage ability)

Manafont is a Black Mage ability from Final Fantasy XIV that restores the user's MP.

Mechanics

	Manafont Black Mage 30	Ability Job action
Effects	Restores 30% of max MP Ignores the MP restoration penalty of Astral Fire

Use

Manafont restores 30% of the Black Mage's maximum MP. With MP standardized to 10,000 for all disciplines as of Shadowbringers, this equates to 3,000 MP in most situations. Manafont is best used during Astral Fire, as passive MP recovery is disabled in this state.

As Astral Fire is a Black Mage's high damage phase, extending it with Manafont can greatly improve the Black Mage's DPS. The Black Mages' most powerful fire spells, Flare and Despair, consume all of the Black Mage's current MP, generally preventing repeated uses during Astral Fire. Using Manafont can allow for an extra cast of these spells, as well as some others beforehand. Flare and Despair only require 800 MP to cast, giving the player an extra 2,200 MP to work with.

Manafont is an instant cast off-global cooldown (oGCD) ability. This allows players to weave it between global cooldowns (GCD) after using instant spells such as Scathe.

Patch history

Version	Changes
A Realm Reborn	Added as Convert. Sacrificed 20% of maximum HP to restore 30% of maximum MP. Could not be executed when current HP was lower than 20%.
Stormblood	No longer available in PvP. New PvP exclusive version added. See below for its patch history.
Shadowbringers	Renamed to Manafont. No longer sacrifices HP and by extension no longer has a minimum HP requirement.

PvP version

Version	Changes
Stormblood	Added as Convert. Restored 25% of max HP and MP with a 60s recast time. Could only be used during Astral Fire or Umbral Ice, and removed them upon execution.
Patch 4.3	Now reset the recast timers of Swiftcast and Aetherial Manipulation in addition to its prior effects.
Shadowbringers	Recast time reduced to 30s. No longer reset the recast timers of Swiftcast and Aetherial Manipulation.
Patch 5.1	Removed.

Behind the scenes

The removed Convert ability in version 2.0.

Manafont was previously known as Convert (コンバート, Konbāto?), being based on the Red Mage ability from Final Fantasy XI. When used, it would restore a percentage of the player's MP, but at the cost of sacrificing some HP. The ability was revamped into Manafront at the launch of the Shadowbringers expansion, which removed the HP cost of the skill and changed the ability's animation.

Gallery

Convert's PvP icon.