Quote Originally Posted by Milkbeard View Post
okay I under stand your personal creative take on what reprise "could be" just now

But the argument that the new changes make zero sense wasn't supported by that at all and I believe you are wanting my personal take by tacking it on at the end. Manafication's DPS buff was condensed because it was redundant. The range change on the 1-2-3 combo is a new change you dislike. I disagree with the "new-gen" take that this range change has killed the job's identity; I think we can communicate about a job needing changes without reacting to a range change on the 1-2-3 as if the job had been gutted.

This has been one of the most well-received jobs since its launch. You don't see long videos complaining about it or players on The Balance taking a dump on it. You just see threads like this one, taking a simple range change on a move and using it to say the class has been gutted and to argue that everything else in its kit needs to be changed. That isn't functional discourse; it's spearheading negativity without being constructive. Trust me, you won't like the result when the devs have to decide what the class will look like next. We should actively be trying to paint a better picture of what we want Red Mage to look like instead of trying to start bandwagons.
You speak as if the devs have spent the last 4 years doing banger after banger on combat combat changes then had one change that was mildly controversial and then go “why are you losing your minds”

For a lot of people this is another in a long long line of shaving away interesting pain points in a job for the sake of ~~(flawed)~~ encounter design. GNB is another, as is BLM, PCT, MCH, PLD, SMN, the healers, DRG and a few others I can’t remember

Unless your perspective is solely focused on not wanting to miss the melee combo in a strict positional limitation of the encounter design then at absolute best this change could be considered vaguely neutral, if you care about the hybrid design of the job this is an objective reduction in its identity on that front. And people don’t have a lot of evidence that this is moving the job in a positive direction considering their track record with at least half of the other jobs