I would have to respectfully disagree, and say that melee throwing weapons are for safely pulling a monster away from other aggressive monsters.
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They apparently didn't learn ANYTHING from 9 years of FFXI, does this really surprise you?
Fights with semi equal footing for all players? Insane!
If you insist on range doing twice as much dps as front line fighters, they should be in equally or twice as much danger, or vice versa. The design of ranged classes doing so much more damage and being in almost no danger from boss attacks is short sighted.
Keep on with buffing melee and doing w/e you have to do to get them into darkhold, but you won't ever make any real ground until you change your vision on the fights themselves.
People will naturally gravitate towards what's easiest - because they want results...and fast.
Few people will stop and think to try to figure things out - or find an even better way of doing it.
You're dealing with people, that's the problem.
Remember FFXI, and Summoners...people didn't even TRY to understand what they did, all they knew is that SMN had a shitload of mana - and Cure III.
So you're spamming Cure III or gtfo right, it was the ignorance of people that caused that in XI - this will continue in XIV.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The problem with summoners was that for a very long time keeping a summon out was incredibly mana inefficient and even when you had it out you couldn't match a real damage dealer. It made perfect sense to pigeonhole summoners into heal bots because that's what they did best.
Even a CON could induce and dodge elbow drop easily.
Archer could stand on the circle and DPS the boss from the start to the end.
A THM could hold 3 skeleton by all by himself.
No, LNC PUG and MRD have absolutely no place in Darkhold.
It can be done with other classes, but you can never do it as fast and efficient.
Remember, to get the chest items you still need to beat it within the 35 min timer. So by all means,
the more ARC the better. Yes, you can beat this dungeon in alternate set ups but no matter which way
look at it, this dungeon is a huge pain in the ass without 3-4+ ARCs.
Thats gay.