Quote Originally Posted by Ageofwar View Post
when I saw the first video of RDM at christmas I was expecting an abilty of switching between melee and casting whenever you wanted. Unless i'm seeing something wrong in the job skills video it seems the spells seem to power up the melee attacks rather than being on an equal footing. its nice to see it being a Ranged Melee rather than a job they would have to break the trinity to bring to light
The thing is that mana generation is very slow. Most skills generate 8-11 mana per cast, with a couple of in-between spells used that generate 3 of each type. The showcase video had the RDM spam magic for a good while and still had to use a cooldown in order to have enough mana to do a three-hit combo.

This is why people are saying the rotation is mostly spamming spells, and they're right.