But it's a sword.

[Fyce]

You're mischaracterizing the OP's post. The OP is basically saying he wants the sword to see actual use in combat, hence "poking the enemy between spells". He said nothing about the auto-attacks being powerful.

I brought up the weak auto's to illustrate that by design the job is built to discourage melee when not 80/80. Which I feel is a problem when the job is supposed to be a sword & spell hybrid.

Hybrid doesn't mean having a strict 50/50% rate in using swordsman and caster skills.

Besides "poking inbetween skills" means that, if OP isn't asking for auto-attacks, then it means he wants one or two oGCD to weave inbetween spells. But that would make RDM a "Melee caster DPS", and completly turn the use of Corps-a-corps and Displacement around, almost making them useless.

Alistaire said to me that this was a Final Fantasy game. Well, all Final Fantasy games are different. For instance, Dualcast wasn't even part of the series for Red Mages before FFV. FFXIV's Red Mage is primarily a caster, jumping in for a devastating melee combo enhanced by black and white mana.

I get that some people may want more melee action from the RDM. But not everyone does.


-I will not answer the rest of the post as my answers would literally be "see above"-