What's disappointed me most about RDM in 5.0

[Nalien]

I believe that was a mistranslation, yes.

They were referencing Reprise at the time, which functionally appears to be Red Mages version of Scathe (albeit at Lv76 when other Jobs are getting cool new sh*t, instead of Lv15 where such a basic utility skill belongs). I can see how "You can't build or spend gauge while being forced to move so we're adding this as an option" could get mistaken for "Since you lose gauge while moving we're adding this".

Sure am glad I now have something to use during Construct 8s rotation spam... Oh wait it's a Lv76 skill and thus I still have no options on all existing old content... Why do they acknowledge the issue but gate the solution behind the very latest levels... Same thing for Engagement, I mean that's a terrible solution to "You can't use Displacement on some maps", but locking the solution to that at Lv72 and leaving us to still suffer that drawback in all existing content? Just take the same logic that lead to Repelling Shot losing its damage and apply that to Displacement like a sane person... Spent 2 years wondering when they'd finally acknowledge and fix that, only for them to finally "fix" it with a lower potency (so we're still punished for map design) shared cooldown... Meanwhile Summoner gets Demi Phoenix...

OK, bringing up Demi Phoenix is a silly argument to make, most Jobs actually get pretty meh skills at Lv72 or 74. Thing is, they're all pretty much improvements on existing things... A new tier of an existing spell, a new Jump, that sort of thing... Engagement is not an improvement on Displacement, it's straight up a 50 potency reduction on Displacement... This would be like Scholar getting a Broil upgrade at Lv72 (they in fact do) and the potency of the Broil III actually being a downgrade on Broil II... Heck who knows, maybe that's exactly what happens... I pray the potency we saw on Engagement was just a sign that its still in development, and upon release it's actually not a complete waste of sense... There's hope, I guess, they forgot to put the II on the end of the AoE versions of Veraero and Verthunder, so Red Mage is clearly due some last minute tweaks before release... Much more likely though, is that we're looking at this expansions Shake it Off...