Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
Since when is WHM based around MP management?

Since when is AST based around MP management?
Exactly as you said, they're both healers -- some of the most MP intensive jobs in the game, and the majority of the reason BLMs can consider Mana Shift a semi-viable utility. If your healer runs out of MP, people die.

The second suggestion, has some merit, because you'd want to time it around maximizing your spell cast output to maximize gains. Whether or not such a thing would end up working well is questionable.
My concern with a suggestion like this, much like the question of having our Enchanted melee restore MP, is that we have to already have a significant MP investment in order to be able to replenish our MP in this manner.
A DoT may be boring, yes, but at least you can use it when you're at low MP to catch up more easily.

Quote Originally Posted by Sunako View Post
MP regen is easily fixed by increasing more melee comboes. PLD used to have tp problems too, but once holy spirit become part of rotation, tp become infinite. Same way rdm regain mana while rotating melee combo, since melee combo is free mana wise and passive mana is 2% mana every 3 seconds.
Except that TP is going the way of the Dodo in Shadowbringers, so we have no idea whether the melee combo will continue to be 'free' or begin consuming MP like our other abilities.

Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
I'm fine with MP being a non-factor for casters apart from rez costs. I'm not fine, however, with spending even more buttons on said non-factor.
My take on this, from a design perspective, is that every gap in the design should be taken as an opportunity for expansion rather than just a problem to slap down.
Increasing MP regen or cutting costs would fix the problem, but it wouldn't expand the gameplay in any way. Restoring MP by doing our melee combo doesn't expand the gameplay either.
About the only options for expansion are "create new interactions between skills we already have" or "more buttons" -- and personally I don't see why we should overcomplicate the solution to such a simple issue.