Quote Originally Posted by Leidiriv View Post
The melee combo isn't meant to be competing around 8 Reprises, since it refunds 35 of the 160 mana spent on it, leaving it at an effective cost of 125 mana. The melee combo is competing with 6.25 Reprises, which means that even at 300 potency Reprise is still a pretty big loss over the melee combo.
Murky waters there. Yes, it is a lower effective cost, but you still need that 160 mana to cast it in the first place, which is why I would argue the 7/28 Mana returned is part of the combo's damage output rather than its cost input.

And hey, I'm not saying "Oh well they can't buff it because it would be stronger than the combo", just that it wouldn't surprise me if that was the grounds for their logic given the very specific number chosen. I simply pointed out that even by that logic, if I'm right about the motivation which I very much could be wrong, there could still be allowances made for a worthwhile form of Reprise.