The boring mage of red

[Virin]

I don't know even at 51 I seem to get to jump in and use my sword often. In PvP I use it a lot. Once I get 70 and I can use the rotation that I wait till 99/100 instead and go in twice in a short amount of time i think it will feel even better

[YokeM]

I don't know even at 51 I seem to get to jump in and use my sword often. In PvP I use it a lot. Once I get 70 and I can use the rotation that I wait till 99/100 instead and go in twice in a short amount of time i think it will feel even better

Thats it! If the mana gauge would fill as fast in PVE as it does in PVP, that would be awesome.

[7-car-pileup]

Thats it! If the mana gauge would fill as fast in PVE as it does in PVP, that would be awesome.

Heck half of that is due to the 1minute cooldown on manafication, that alone would keep things interesting by constantly jumping between ranged and mellee. I don't want to sit in mellee all the time but sitting at full distance for most of the fight gets dull with no intent between casting spells beyond filling up meter.

In the end it seems to be boiling down to one or a few of these:

a) Manafication needs to be shorter akin to the pvp version.

b) Mana needs to fill up more so that its about a 9 GCD's at a range to 3GCD's at point blank (I wouldnt mind if the recast on this balance iteration meant the mellee combo came out at a normal pace rather than the speedy version we have now)

c) Impact/Verstone/Verfire Add individual buffs to manage and justify casting them beyond just filling meter, Verholy/Verflare could use this treatment too but being that they have a more nuanced use already it wouldnt be as necessary.