Was BLM not enough?

[Kishin12345]

A pretty good change imo.
It is still very situational, depending if a mechanic forces you out of range. Overall for more stable damage output to ensure you get off an entire combo.
The manafication change is also great imo. Now you can hold it for the 2min buff window and dont need to use it on cd because it doesnt increase damage anymore.
Having prefulgence instantly is also very nice.

[Underscore]

The homogenization will continue until morale improves.

[Azurarok]

Using Manafication on cooldown is probably still generally better. I doubt it's worth holding over potentially losing a use in most cases and it isn't like we couldn't get two sword combos in without it either.

[WawaMaxHeightLala]

A pretty good change imo.
It is still very situational, depending if a mechanic forces you out of range. Overall for more stable damage output to ensure you get off an entire combo.
The manafication change is also great imo. Now you can hold it for the 2min buff window and dont need to use it on cd because it doesnt increase damage anymore.
Having prefulgence instantly is also very nice.

With all respect, no this is a terrible change. Turning into a physical ranged for 12 seconds with no room for skill expression is bad design.

[ForsakenRoe]

Gunbreaker got ruined too. This game is so miserable. And every time this happens you get these people talking down to you about how the game being made less fun for you is actually a good thing.

I'm 100% more upset over the GNB changes personally, though I might be bias due to being a tank main.

You're not looking at the bigger picture. The WAR mains need to feel like they're playing WAR, even when they choose to play something that isn't WAR, or they get upset /s

On a serious note, the massive potency hits to everything, to make room for pressing 3 Fell Cleaves Lionheart every 60s instead of 120s, make me concerned for lower level content where we don't have Lionheart. Is TOP or DSR suddenly going to feel awful as a GNB because all of your potency is locked to a skill you don't have the level for due to the sync?

Making some sort of "magic slash/tear" VFX that originates from your rapier and moves to the target rapidly would be a relatively decent solution for the visual disconnect happening. Kind of like this (I pulled these from Google)

Can't tell for all 3 melee moves (wasn't really paying attention), but I did see the Z from Zwerchau flies towards the enemy. Might be that the other two also have a slightly adjusted VFX too

[IzanamiNoMikotoo]

The hell are you talking about? The only thing that changed is that your melee combo now is ranged every 2 min. The reason they did this is cause there are many scenarios where you are forced to completely stay out of melee for a buff window as a caster in a raid. And in that case there was 0 skill expression. You could not delay it as that meant drifting your biggest burst out of buff windows which ruins your damage. "Oh no, Square Enix has fixed an issue that was forcing the player to mess up their entire rotation with no counterplay in certain situations", get lost mate this literally changes nothing in the difficulty of the job

[Kishin12345]

The hell are you talking about? The only thing that changed is that your melee combo now is ranged every 2 min. The reason they did this is cause there are many scenarios where you are forced to completely stay out of melee for a buff window as a caster in a raid. And in that case there was 0 skill expression. You could not delay it as that meant drifting your biggest burst out of buff windows which ruins your damage. "Oh no, Square Enix has fixed an issue that was forcing the player to mess up their entire rotation with no counterplay in certain situations", get lost mate this literally changes nothing in the difficulty of the job

100% agree with this. There were too many scenarios where you just got punished for getting forced into melee range, now 1 of the potential 2 combos you can fit into burst are guaranteed to hit rather than going out of range and waiting, delaying or even breaking combo. That just felt dumb

[Supersnow845]

Why are mechanics being designed that are so unbelievably rigid that you are forced to make changes to the jobs like this

If your solution is so rigid you cannot allow the RDM in melee range then you’ve made a bad mechanic

[WawaMaxHeightLala]

The hell are you talking about? The only thing that changed is that your melee combo now is ranged every 2 min. The reason they did this is cause there are many scenarios where you are forced to completely stay out of melee for a buff window as a caster in a raid. And in that case there was 0 skill expression. You could not delay it as that meant drifting your biggest burst out of buff windows which ruins your damage. "Oh no, Square Enix has fixed an issue that was forcing the player to mess up their entire rotation with no counterplay in certain situations", get lost mate this literally changes nothing in the difficulty of the job

Respectfully, what I'm talking about is planning my mana gauge and thus melee combo around fights and maintaining optimization, needing very precise movement, timing, and at times displacement. Examples of the tightest movements I've seen were p8sp2, p12sp1, m4s, and most recently the 6.3 EX. Managing that movement within manafication uses is now not necessary. Additionally manafication is 110 second cooldown so would drift out if buffs anyway and this doesnt "fix" melee combos to be ranged during such burst phases. Admittedly I healed last tier but otherwise have ran RDM 2 whole expansions now and never failed to get melee combos off, do mechanics, and maintain uptime without overcapping or letting cool downs sit.

Lastly you can not tell me in good faith that removing the melee range requirement has no effect on skill expression, tanks and melees strive for this to the highest degree that raid strats are built around it. They literally addressed between EW and DT they wanted to have less wall bosses because it was taking away from that skill expression.

Fine with you having an opinion on it, I just firmly disagree as someone that plays rdm 95% of the time. I'm posting here since its where devs supposedly get most feedback from rather than socials, so seeking to firmly and respectfully state how this waters down the class immensely.

[Reginald_Cain]

What exactly got easier? It just looks like it has better stats at lower levels