ranged attack on every monster?

[Mack]

Yep. Not much point to using positioning and strategy if the mob can still hit me regardless of what I do.

Whatever happened to this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/#/game...ar/lancer/role

"using the long reach of their polearms, lancers are able to deal devastating damage from a position of relative safety".

That's just stupid hype like the majority of information that was thrown at us before release. SE doesn't know that you don't hype a game with mechanics that are "planned" for the future, you hype it with what you'll release it with.