RDM's Weak Auto-Attack

[Vendalwind]

It would be cool if they had something like "Casting Enchanted Riposte grants you Blade Arts for X seconds, causing your auto attacks to deal additional unaspected damage with a potency of Y," As opposed to just having fulltime auto attack boosts, make their melee combo rotation temporarily enhance their auto attacks and make it last just long enough that it ends by the time you displace and go back to caster mode.

This. Yes do this.

[Duelle]

How come a lv 80 crafter will do more damage with an auto attack than a Red Mage will? I think it has the lowest auto attack of anything in the game, and it's a dps. Could you not raise it to maybe 300ish per auto attack?

This would require RDM's Physical Attack scaling with INT. I'm not against this (in fact, I suggested it a while back).

Granted, at that point you might as well have RDM do more in the front lines, which I'm also not against.

[wereotter]

I would not be opposed to this idea.... Red mage already auto attacks while casting, so being a casting job that does better if in melee range could be interesting and different. There are a few other things to adjust to this. For example, you could make this a trait that happens at level 72 and just have engagement replace displacement entirely.

It would add an additional 20% or so to red mage DPS, though, so I might expect the job would get other nerfs if this were implemented.

[Warkupo]

Once upon a time I could meld STR materia and do exactly this.

[Zyneste]

Once upon a time I could meld STR materia and do exactly this.

Thank you patch 5.0. Patch of miracles.

[Archwizard]

Honestly, more than it being weak, I'm surprised by RDM's auto-attack being so slow. They use friggin' rapiers, for crying out loud; their auto-attacks should be weak but quick.

But, I suppose their weaponskills are calculated based off the weapon damage, and the offset to making them melee-comparable was speed...

[Noitems]

How come a lv 80 crafter will do more damage with an auto attack than a Red Mage will?

MY TIME HAS ARRIVED. My Lvl 80 Culinarian with DH/Crit melds will finally offer better uptime then a melee RDM.

People called me crazy, a loon, but here I am about to run circles around the Formidable fate with insanely high dps, frying pan in hand or be damned.

Any Dragoons I'm with please give me your Dragon Sight, and Dancers, you would be a fool not to pick me as your dance partner!