Melee roles are being gimped in this game

[Aries37]

AoE in this game hit both melee and range with only few exception. With melee you can still dps while avoiding aoe, as long as you stand in range. Dont forget that DRG got skill with 200 and 300 potency while the only 190 potency skill brd have is misery end which only proc when target below 20% hp.

Potency is not really a good indicator of damage-per-hit. Remember that bards have traits that give them +30% action damage so your 150 hits are more like 200.

[Sterob]

Potency is not really a good indicator of damage-per-hit. Remember that bards have traits that give them +30% action damage so your 150 hits are more like 200.

false, bard trait +20% action damage.

mele DPS have to deal with short aoe and long aoe while ranged only have to deal with long aoe,
In coil: first mini boss has special area only or melee. Caduceus: melee have to evade the tail swipe and the cleave when the tank moves it. ADS, special area only for mele (and when -25% extremely big area only for melee), boss have to rotate between tanks and tanks will move when short areas so easy to get a cleave attack..

False, The only AoE melee have to evade is the circle aoe that hit around the boss. All other aoe including frontal aoe like land slide or lock on aoe like weght of land, both melee and range need to dodge them.

In coil melee will never ever have to dodge tail whip because only brain dead melee stand behind boss instead of side. For ADS if it is your tank or your group fault if you cant make 2 tanks stand at 90 degree thus cleave will never ever hit melee dps. Also in ADS, range dps too have to position themselves in W formation to avoid AoE.