How to use chanter spells?

[Fighter]

I must be missing something. But they are never usable. It says, "Requires X phrases chanted". But how do I do that? I have the chant engaged and I can hear him chant at the beginning of combat but the spells are still not usable during combat. What am I doing wrong?

[Jimmious]

You can see a small number in the bottom right of the Chanter's icon. When this reaches 3(or more depending on the spell I guess) you can cast a spell.
Think of it like your Chanter has to sing 3 verses before he can cast a spell


*The number increases "automatically" as time passes when you have the chant engaged as you said
**If you create huge chants, it will obviously take more time

Edited April 1, 2015 by Jimmious

[Grand_Commander13]

On his character portrait you'll see at one of the bottom counters a yellowish circle with a number inside of it: that's the number of phrases you have. Low-level phrases are weaker but accumulate more quickly.

[Tigranes]

You keep chant on. You wait for the chanter to complete the required number of phrases. Make sure that you have a chant loop set up in the chant screen, so that your chanter is chanting continuously. See how Kana's set up to do it, if you've got that far.

[sorrowofwind]

I must be missing something. But they are never usable. It says, "Requires X phrases chanted". But how do I do that? I have the chant engaged and I can hear him chant at the beginning of combat but the spells are still not usable during combat. What am I doing wrong?

There is a circle under chanter's portrait that shows a number from 0~3. You need to fullfill 3 to cast an invocation. (not sure at higher level, probably still require 3 phrases, which means the earlier invocations especially the summon ones would render useless I guess)

[Fighter]

So it's just automatic with time?

 

You keep chant on. You wait for the chanter to complete the required number of phrases. Make sure that you have a chant loop set up in the chant screen, so that your chanter is chanting continuously. See how Kana's set up to do it, if you've got that far.

 

Yeah I started using Kana just now and trying to figure it out.

 

EDIT: Ok thanks. Figured it out. Just takes a while.

Edited April 1, 2015 by Fighter

[Jimmious]

So it's just automatic with time?

 Basically yes. If a chant is "running" after some time passes you'll have reached the magic number

[Grand_Commander13]

You keep chant on. You wait for the chanter to complete the required number of phrases. Make sure that you have a chant loop set up in the chant screen, so that your chanter is chanting continuously. See how Kana's set up to do it, if you've got that far.

 

I didn't think you had to do anything special for that. I made Gunner's Cadence with just a single rapid reload phrase and it looped just fine. I could tell because he accumulated phrases and after every fight the gunners had their comically quick reload animation. 

[grumbold99]

It took me a little while to work out too. The spells can be very helpful once you know how they work. A timely Chanter spell has completely tipped the balance in my favour in a few tough fights.