RDM Changes

[Milkbeard]

I mean instead of hitting the job identity they could have made the mana dump ability something useful?

Make reprise a combo that deals less damage than a full melee combo would work: you still are encouraged to get in melee range but if you can’t by any reason or you have to move and stay far you have a ranged burst ready.
It’s literally the function of Reprise as for now apart from mana dumping: too far but want to keep uptime and not overcap? Reprise.

The new changes make ZERO sense and are redundant

okay I under stand your personal creative take on what reprise "could be" just now

But the argument that the new changes make zero sense wasn't supported by that at all and I believe you are wanting my personal take by tacking it on at the end. Manafication's DPS buff was condensed because it was redundant. The range change on the 1-2-3 combo is a new change you dislike. I disagree with the "new-gen" take that this range change has killed the job's identity; I think we can communicate about a job needing changes without reacting to a range change on the 1-2-3 as if the job had been gutted.

This has been one of the most well-received jobs since its launch. You don't see long videos complaining about it or players on The Balance taking a dump on it. You just see threads like this one, taking a simple range change on a move and using it to say the class has been gutted and to argue that everything else in its kit needs to be changed. That isn't functional discourse; it's spearheading negativity without being constructive. Trust me, you won't like the result when the devs have to decide what the class will look like next. We should actively be trying to paint a better picture of what we want Red Mage to look like instead of trying to start bandwagons.