Seeing Red Again

[Axzeriuth]

What's the point of even having the melee skills available all the time if they're useless before you charge up your mana?

There is no use for the skills until you get to 80/80 mana. Later on you get Reprise which consumes 5/5 but it's a pretty useless skill and only ever shines if you can't cast a spell but still wanna do damage (like BLM Scorch).

The melee combo for single target (Ripose->Azerchhau->Redoublement) there is no point to use it if you don't have 80/80 mana.

Once you hit lvl 52 you unlock Moulinet for an AoE. Get mana to 100/100 Moulinet down to 40/40-> Manafication(lvl60)-> Moulinet til 0/0.