RDM's Weak Auto-Attack

[Brandedblade]

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.

[Gaethan_Tessula]

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.

Yeah, something that's on temporarily might be appreciated just for the aesthetic.

It's that or RDM's DPS gets tuned to be competitive without the autos, and with them you get an entirely bonus extra few %. More of an optimization game than a requirement; issue is, it'd probably become or perceived as a requirement for early progression Savage/Ultimate.

If OP just wants a sense that their RDM is an actual swordfighter and not just a mage with a toy sword, RDM's unenchanted weaponskills do give it the "advantage" that if you're somehow ever totally out of MP, you can do more damage than the other casters also out of MP (or, really you can do more than an OOM healer or SUM, because BLM gets enough for one blizzard and now they have mana again).