Quote Originally Posted by GartredZW View Post
The monkey's paw curls, and Transpose is removed from the game. instead it shares a button with umbral soul, and can't be used in combat.
Doesn't matter how awful this will make downtime feel. They beat all us mean ol' mages trying to think about things, and that's all that matters.
I mean that's a good change if you like hardcasting spells. Transpose should have been replaced with umbral soul from the beginning, and umbral soul should be usable in astral fire. Or keep it, make it only usable in astral fire, and have it button swap into umbral soul upon switching to umbral ice.

I have no attachment to instant cast black mage but I think it is cooler than the original non-standard. Personally I am a fan of rotations that are set in stone and just work correctly. People will always optimize games regardless, so it makes no difference. At the top level, you're always going to be doing the same thing. Standardizing rotations and making the meta organically happen is a hallmark of good job design in my opinion. No matter what your opinion is, once the job is solved there is only one right way of playing it.