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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Hyperion
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    Black Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
    RDM doesn't start until 50, but has essentially its rotation done at 60 when it gets Embolden and Manafication. Yes, it adds Holy/Flare (70), Scorch (80), and Resolution (90) after that, but they're each just "press one more button at the end of the melee combo", which doesn't really change the gameplay much, and only Holy/Flare is a choice anyway, the other two you automatically do no matter what.
    RDM is a bad example of having "essentially its rotation done at 60", though, as I pointed out in that other thread:
    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    Red Mage for example. If they try to learn it like a Lv1 starter job, by only playing low level stuff until they're used to the basics, without cross referencing the higher level actions periodically, it's really easy to develop two bad habits:
    1. Starting a melee combo at 50|50 or some other balanced value.
    2. Casting Verstone-Verthunder when White is at +1 or Verfire-Veraero when Black is at +1, which leaves them balanced.
    These two mistakes have no negative impact until 68/70, at which point they suddenly become significant mistakes.
    If the addition of a single action or action pair ten levels later invalidates habits allowed or encouraged for the 50 levels prior, the "core" action set is incomplete. We should get weaker Vercombofinishers (Verquake? Verfreeze?) as soon as we get Redoublement.
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    Last edited by Rongway; 10-13-2023 at 12:00 AM.

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