No, playing melee was fun. You could die quick but also kill really quick. You could always play ranged if you don't like it.
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If you havent play between 3.1 to 4.5, you are clueless about what you are talking about
Range is 100% deserve for melee and tank get 50% damage reduction after 4.5 while they got none, especially machinist.
Recent 10% boost still showing SE has data showing Range out perform meele post 6.1, in which, the data you dont have.
I primarily play BRD, and you can still kill really quick. Its fine the way it is right now. Going back to the old values just means melee can never go into the frontlines and have to scurry around in small engagements because they'd just get vaporized in large groups.
SMN's were potent BECAUSE of the lack of damage reduction...
Just play Samurai and spam your LB everywhere.
bumping thread for the sake of fun