From Meleewalker to Meleetrail

[SaberMaxwell]

I should have picked my wording better, I sometimes forget the internet is a terrible place to try to indicate tone (well, text in general).

Regarding raise I'm on team "yank it altogether." Humorously one of the few things the 2 minute meta has done well has been make raise exorbitantly expensive--since most mechanics that can kill people also happen during those two minute windows, a Red Mage has to cut one of their melee combos entirely to catch a raise and summoner needs to cut, erm, a swiftcasted ifrit/garuda spell I think. I can only speak to detail on RDM but there is somewhere in the thousands of potency of opportunity cost to pick someone up if they die during a burst, or even if a death happens while you're mid combo.

The capping its cast time reduction is an idea I've thought of as well, which would make sense too since RDM has a 9 or 10 second long raise cast compared to everyone else at 7.5s iirc.

[Shurrikhan]

The capping its cast time reduction is an idea I've thought of as well, which would make sense too since RDM has a 9 or 10 second long raise cast compared to everyone else at 7.5s iirc.

10s, yeah. Which seems... needless and wonky, since we aren't going to use it outside of Swiftcast or Dualcast.

The advantage of capping Dualcast's cast-time reduction would be, to me, that we could split the difference and drop Verraise down to 3 or 4 seconds of cast-time under Dualcast instead of being forced to exempt the skill or always have it offer free Swiftcast-Raises-Until-OOM. Such would still be advantageous but situational, since it then often couldn't be used mid-mechanic and would therefore face many of the same challenges as others' bare Raises, even if not to the same uptime costs.

Another idea I've being toying with, though, stacking with Dualcast being capped at 4s (and Veraero/Verthunder returning to just a 4s cast) is to stop bothering with Reprise altogether, and instead allow Black and/or White Mana to be consumed to automatically complete Black/White/Red casts when they'd otherwise be interrupted by non-manual means, based on cast time skipped over.

* (As the relative value of each point of gauge increases, decrease this cost, or add a bit of bonus potency in compensation for accelerated spells.)

In that case, you could have Verraise be a standard 8s cast that'd cost X White Mana gauge to instant-cast, and you might then add a 8s cast mitigation tool that consumes Black Mana for thematic balance. No button-bloat. A bit more utility. But you aren't as taxed for merely having it -- instead, it's more self-balancing, without relying on coinciding raid damage dealt and likelihood of death.