New to the game, melee feels "immobile"

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Originally Posted by Llamawaffle

Are there any plans to address this? Again, Melee should feel as is if they can stick on a target and not lose dps, and not feel as if they're "resetting" their rotation.

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I don't agree that this is a problem. The bosses AoEs are meant to interrupt the momentum of the dps so it's really the mark of good dps to immediately get back into the fight and rebuild their momentum as fast as possible. As such I don't feel it requires any kind of fix.

That being said, the classes always have the potential for new skills being added to help keep the momentum going but I wouldn't expect these until they raise the lvl cap.

Until then, stick with it and I'm sure you'll adjust really soon. :)

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Originally Posted by Llamawaffle

Well, my issue isn't the "Moving out of the AoE" but feeling like I go through a "hard reset" on my rotation. If I can't stay in range, DoTs and buffs drop fairly quickly (the 2.5 sec GCD does not help this at all) And that's well that role fulfillment fails me. As a Melee class, I should be able to maintain deeps as long as I'm in range, the "ramping up" doesn't do it for me.

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Let me be clear, there are hard resets in certain fights. Such as Ifrit's and Levi's charges, or Divebombs. The cases of these are few and far between and it affects everyone because it's not a range issue, it's a "you can't attack the boss right now, so run like a chicken" issue. (WTB chicken emote).

There are no hard resets because of aoe as far as I know. You can keep your buffs and dots up once you're fast and sometimes clever (attacking a titan bomb to keep up buffs).
I don't know how viable elusive is to get out of something but you've got Spineshatter Dive and Dragonfire Dive to get back in. Monk has a 30s CD Shoulder Tackle as well.

Having to stop attacking is inevitable, but nothing really forces you to reset your buffs/dots. If it does, it's because you can't attack the boss for that time.