Again, I'm really confused by people interpreting "Hey, I wish the melee was a little more integrated and a little less ornamental" as "STAB ALL THE THINGS ALL THE TIME." Again, it's just that all the melee burst is is a melee burst. It doesn't influence or affect anything else, and when used in non-burst-format it's kind of scrawny and pointless. There are no options to use it, and there's no bonus to using it. Comparing it to Blizzard phase is funny enough - casting blizzard as a BLM is sub-optimal ( by a lot ) but at least serves a purpose with the overall kit, not just being sub-optimal and nothing else.

No one is asking for it to be major-supreme-stabber from the Stablands, but I'd really wish that there were more melee options. I mean... give me a melee attack that I can use and it inflicts a status effect based on the last spell cast. Maybe make the non-empowered attacks do something else in its place to make them semi-useful, or even situationally useful. Give me something that eats white or black mana on use to better show the 'balance' mechanic as anything more than builder / consumer resource gameplay.