I've had and tested an incredible revelation. The vast majority of trance decay happens because of animations slowing down the battle. The nice thing is that in wait mode you can freeze the AT gages by going into the right menu. Do so long enough for the animations to play out and you should be able to cast about thirty spells off a single trance.

quote am3930

I've had and tested an incredible revelation. The vast majority of trance decay happens because of animations slowing down the battle. The nice thing is that in wait mode you can freeze the AT gages by going into the right menu. Do so long enough for the animations to play out and you should be able to cast about thirty spells off a single trance.

Could you explain this in more context? It'd really help.

From the name, I was expecting this to be about the way you can maintain Trance for an entire battle regardless of how long it takes. Apparantly, I was wrong.

Well say someone uses holy in battle or another long spell. If Terra is in trance the animation for the spell takes so long her trance gauge goes down a lot. But if you go in the menu on wait mode and not even take an action it will not deplete at all during the animation.