Thread: With a Pure Ranger DPS, what will be the point of Melee DPS? (assuming its Post 2.2)

Higher defense.
More fights like Turn 4 will make melee dps shine.
- Try out Mr. Happy's strat with melee vs brds and feel the difference.

Why bring a "pure ranger DPS", when you can have bards?

Melee is already OP damage-wise... but finding a good one is hard so people just take ranged.

Originally Posted by tymora

Higher defense.
More fights like Turn 4 will make melee dps shine.
- Try out Mr. Happy's strat with melee vs brds and feel the difference.

I understand the melee's have slightly higher defense than Ranged DPS (speaking strictly Bards). But everything in this game is so Party dependent. I see where Defense would come in to play if the game revolved around more difficult solo content but in most cases your mainly in a party dpsing from a distance and you rarely ever get hit.

In turn 4, I can't really say a Melee dps will come on top of a Ranged DPS (MSK) cause we haven't seen any gameplay of it yet.

Isn't range DPS LB just a big AoE attack? Whereas melee is a massive single-target attack?

And then they give Musketeer a cast bar for everything...

Has there been new info on musketeer? Who says it won't also be a form of support/dps much like bard? Or even just have induction times like black mage or summoner?

Originally Posted by Ericyu

I can't really say a Melee dps will come on top of a Ranged DPS (MSK) cause we haven't seen any gameplay of it yet.

This pretty much sums up your whole thread.

Originally Posted by PArcher

And then they give Musketeer a cast bar for everything...

and an annoying gun shot sound in every skill.....

I know in your title you mention Musketeer, but we already have pure range DPSers...They are called SMNs and BLMs.