Ranged does less damage to ice clusters?

Hello! I was recently informed that in the new PvP grounds, ranged DPS(I assume BRD and BLM for example) deal only half the damage that melee DPS deals? That seems kind of unfair if that's true, especially if it was a whole party of BRDs or mostly ranged DPS.

If it's true, any idea why they decided to do this?

In Shatter, only magical damage is halved on the icebound tomeliths. Apparently it was due to casters being able to be really safe while DPSing the tomeliths, but we all know it's because the JP meta before nerfs included parties with lots of SMNs and BLMs that can nuke down the ice really fast at full damage. Physical ranged DPS (BRD and MCH) are unaffected by it and do full damage to ice. Other sources of magic damage are also affected, such as NIN's Raiton and lots of DRK skills that I can't recall but do magic damage.

BLM and SMN do less damage comparatively to other jobs because the crystals had a 50% increase to their magically defense.

HOWEVER, BRD and MCH will do LESS damage if they are standing farther than 15y with stance on. If you want to do max damage with these jobs, the range penalty DOES affect the crystals as well in Shatter.

I feel like that's pretty fair considering how much damage potential blm and smn has. Though, I don't like that it affects any other magic attacks too.

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Originally Posted by Chaelyn

HOWEVER, BRD and MCH will do LESS damage if they are standing farther than 15y with stance on.

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Honestly i dont understand why they didnt used this method for casters aswell that -50% is just retarded on top of CC nerfs. I feel sorry for casters as they didnt really deserved all these "adjustments".