Was BLM not enough?

[Jaltaer]

And here I thought they'd at least wait until 8.0 to lobotomize my main job, but it seems they just couldn't help themselves and started early.

Although personally, I think this move comes more from a place of "we completely forgot RDM existed when we designed the last savage tier (M7S in particular, if you aren't in a melee spot during phase 2 the burst is a nightmare) so now we have to cover our asses" than anything else.

Also, though I doubt this will be noticed in a post halfway through the 8th page - a lot of people are misunderstanding one of the changes. You don't get *one* melee combo for free - when you activate Manafic, you get a 30s buff that makes all of your enchanted melee 123 25y for the entire duration. If the distance buff was tied to the 3 swordplay stacks, that would have been...still not great, but certainly better than this.