RDM thoughts and tuning needed

[Rongway]

The 35 may not be part of the cost input for the current combo, but it absolutely is for the NEXT combo.

If you're going to look at it that way (and I recommend we do), you also need to account for the mana that would have been generated by the spells you're not casting during the combo. This puts the effective cost of a full melee combo at about 163 mana, as the melee combo expends 160 and generates 35 in the time that you could have generated 38 mana by casting spells.

Spell cost went down by 10-20% from what I can see, but they cut our MP pool by far more than that, and while we can technically get about a 25% increase on MP regen of Lucid Dreaming if we keep it on strict cooldown, it definitely doesn't make up for the drastic cut the magic classes had to their MP pools. Sure, Verraise is now "only" 2400 MP, but that's now essentially a quarter of our MP pool.

It's funny that you use Verraise as your example, because Verraise is the one spell that's actually in a better position now.

But anyway for anyone who wants it, here's a comparison of our costs pre-/post- ShB.

Spell         SB cost    SB cost%    ShB cost    ShB cost%    Change
Jolt              360      2.500%         300       3.000%      +20%
Verstone          360      2.500%         300       3.000%      +20%
Verfire           360      2.500%         300       3.000%      +20%
Veraero           480      3.333%         400       4.000%      +20%
Verthunder        480      3.333%         400       4.000%      +20%
Verholy           600      4.167%         500       5.000%      +20%
Verflare          600      4.167%         500       5.000%      +20%
Scorch           ----      -----          500       5.000%      ----
Vercure           600      4.167%         500       5.000%      +20%
Scatter           480      3.333%         400       4.000%      +20%
Verraise         3600     25.000%        2400      24.000%       -4%