Red Mage is Range Combat? (Discussion)

[Vaer]

You could still use their "repelling shot" attack and then immediately use that gap closer move in the video and stay in melee range so you can immediately go back to spells/melee attacks.

They could put a 8y minimum range (like shoulder tackle in 2.0, unable to be used in melee range) on all spells so if you stood in melee all the time you wouldn't be able to cast spells or make the TP cost/cooldowns on the melee attacks really high so if you stay in melee range you only end up auto attacking. On the other hand they could also force melee attacks by putting some kind of sustain mechanic on it, like a more gimmicky umbral ice where the melee attacks give you MP back so if you just stood in the back casting spells you would run out of MP and be unable to do anything.

8y min range on spells would make leveling a pain so perhaps a potency bonus at 8y+ would work better.

Won't know the design for another couple months but there are ways they could force movement, just depends how strict they want to be with it really.