Esper? WTF!!

[Skyblade]

I think Anno Domini means 'I it.'

Anno Domini means "The Year of (Our) Lord", not "I it". Your translator must be screwy. Oh, you meant what Anno intended to say. *Gets hit for being a smart@$$*

The Espers actually fail because of the Mist System, which was, in my mind, a insanely bad execution of FFTA's JP system. The two systems are very similar, involving a point tabulation that could be used to either unleash a combo attack or summon a monster. Unfortunately, unlike FFTA, the points required to use those abilities in FFXII are also your MP. End result: You have a single stat having its functionality split between too many different purposes for it to be effective. As in FFVIII, magic gets cannibilized to different purposes. It didn't work then, it doesn't work now. Switch Mist Charges back to a separate counter that isn't tied into your buffing/healing abilities, and I think the Espers would have worked fine. Square Enix just needs to stop screwing with alternative uses for magic.