Quote Originally Posted by Hayward View Post
A Red Mage that actually gets to use its sword and magic and provide some utility when needed? Blasphemy!
spending roughly 18 GCDs casting and three using a sword is not what I would call good use of the sword. Melee as a whole cancels Dualcast (didn't see that auto-attacks also removed it), so you can't even mix it up between the single melee combo and building mana with spell spam.

As for MP recovery, it'd be nice if the melee combo without spell blade would recover MP, since then you'd have an actual reason to use it outside of 80/80 mana.