Quote Originally Posted by Tint View Post
By the way we have a precedent case: Piercing Talon, Enpi, Throwing Dagger, Shield Lob, Tomahawk and Lightning Shot all have the word "ranged" in their skill description.

Just Unmend and Enchanted Reprise lack that additional word.

So obviously it has something to do with the fact that these skills are both magical, while the others are physical. But why is the word only added for the physical skills? I think Rongway is in the right way here: The wording would be cumbersome o.ô;
Unfortunately Red Mage is simply an outlier.

Machinist has no tags of "ranged" attacked on its tooltip lines. Neither does Bard. Neither does Dancer.

The thing about the skill tooltips is that they read specifically as they do when they break the norm. Melee jobs are not ranged by norm, therefore the specification that they deal a "Ranged attack" with those skills is a matter of clarity.

All of Red Mage's melee combo is also described as un-aspected attacks, yet none of them are delivered at range.

Sharpened Knife for the blue mage is an 'unaspected' attack yet is also effectively melee.

And any talk of 'cumbersome' tooltips for adding a simple word need not look at Earthly Star. Literally any complaint about '1 word' being too much is completely thrown out the window there.

If anything, the melee attack tooltips should change to fall in line with everything else, but would that also be too cumbersome?

Would changing "Deals unaspected damage" to "Deliver an unaspected attack" be too much?