Needed RDM tweeks after Media Tour

[SaberMaxwell]

The Red Mage scathe, it will have limited use i would think. It is different being on blm and having scathe, blm has use for it.

RDM has tons of use for a scathe-like ability. Dualcast is nice but until you get that cast off you're stuck in place, and losing one cast because of forced movement on RDM is losing two casts because of dualcast.

I think it will get more use out of its scathe than BLM, who at this point has several options every minute for instant movement if needed. Not to mention most BLM I know would rather clip than scathe.

If you are forced to use a lesser potency move for a higher potency move it's punishment not rewarding. Same goes for positionals. Maybe it's a glass half full / glass half empty scenario, but most people see a potency loss not as a reward for doing good but a punishment for playing bad.

I mean, positionals are a very apt way of putting it. They're a core element of melee DPS, risking positional attacks for higher damage rewards. Fair enough you can look at it as a loss and a punishment instead of a gain; I see it as a gain because of the spirit of the attack since its inception. It's always been a risk (not even just a cramped arena: imagine displacing at the wrong time and soloing a thermionic beam or a morn afah) for a reward (130 potency every 35 seconds isn't exactly a small amount of potency, not counting the instant refresh that manafy gives every 2 minutes).

Which brings me to my next point. If we're looking at it as punishment, they reduced the punishment for not optimizing displacement by 80 potency. Right now, not using it on cooldown costs 130 potency. In the future, using engage over displace will only cost 50 potency.