Quote Originally Posted by Milkbeard View Post
How could a mana dump be a solution for red mage? It would have to stronger than at least half an entire sword and spell combo to ever be worth doing something like that before a boss leaves. And if its' about balancing your mana and cutting 20 from each then use moulinet. I love the creativity, but red mage's resource just doesn't work like that. Functionally, reprise is a mana dump, because its stronger than any part of the resource spending sword hits. Do you really want a knock off dispair? I don't
I mean instead of hitting the job identity they could have made the mana dump ability something useful?

Make reprise a combo that deals less damage than a full melee combo would work: you still are encouraged to get in melee range but if you can’t by any reason or you have to move and stay far you have a ranged burst ready.
It’s literally the function of Reprise as for now apart from mana dumping: too far but want to keep uptime and not overcap? Reprise.

The new changes make ZERO sense and are redundant