Melee DPS not allowed anywhere, Thx SE.

[Narcissus]

Getting old pretty quick, currently unsubbed running out my last 20 days going back and forth deciding whether I want to stay or not.

Would love to stay, been playing FF games since I was like 12. But putting all this time into my Dragoon and not being able to bring it anywhere is making me aggravated.

"Just play another class" - I do I have 5 50s all geared in DL or better.
"Make your own party" - Yeah okay so no one will join??

Insight or even negative comments welcome, I could just be being a bitch here, but please SE fix this. 2.2 I'll resub for a month but it may be the last straw. If the fights don't become even or Melee dps get a buff to the point to where its delusional not to have one of us in a group I'm bailing.

[KraggyKor]

This is simply a direct result of SE designing the battle mechanics in V2 as basically FPS 'twitch' mechanics where fight difficulty is largely determined by the scale and frequency of AoEs; V1 was nothing like as crass.

It's truly abysmal how many key fights make melee DPS a liability while ranged can often stand around uninterrupted or even if they have to move of course Archers/Bards can DPS on the run; fights like Titan HM illustrate this so well.

[Farah]

This is simply a direct result of SE designing the battle mechanics in V2 as basically FPS 'twitch' mechanics where fight difficulty is largely determined by the scale and frequency of AoEs; V1 was nothing like as crass.

It's truly abysmal how many key fights make melee DPS a liability while ranged can often stand around uninterrupted or even if they have to move of course Archers/Bards can DPS on the run; fights like Titan HM illustrate this so well.

This is funny cause a lot of the titan HM runs I've seen the bard dies first, usually before the heart. I run it as a bard now and can't figure out why other bards die in that fight at all. I first ran it as a monk and did perfectly fine.

[MikoteAstra]

This is funny cause a lot of the titan HM runs I've seen the bard dies first, usually before the heart. I run it as a bard now and can't figure out why other bards die in that fight at all. I first ran it as a monk and did perfectly fine.

Meany people witch are playing as range class, dont have the skill and the training for dodging the aoe atacks !

As a Monk i have to dodge in every single fight aoes, different kinds shapes and etc... ! How often do you think range classes need to dodge aoes !

I will give you an example.

In the HM (hard mode) and in the new Light Tower dn, you have bosses where you need to dodge alot and the aoes are really fast, almsot every single party im in range dps and healers are deing because they cant dodge the aoes, because they are not used to such a fight!

[MikoteAstra]

As for Garuda Ex, i simply dont understand where is the problem of the people for not wanting a melle in the party.

I personaly dont have any problems to dodge the aoe atack, the only atacks im getting hit are the once you cant do a thing about them!

Then again 90% of failing the Garuda EX is thx to the either tanks or healers! But yeah blame the melle class !

[kukurumei]

As for Garuda Ex, i simply dont understand where is the problem of the people for not wanting a melle in the party.

I personaly dont have any problems to dodge the aoe atack, the only atacks im getting hit are the once you cant do a thing about them!

Then again 90% of failing the Garuda EX is thx to the either tanks or healers! But yeah blame the melle class !

There is no problem, there's a solution, aka brute force. Garuda EX is not a high ilevel like Twintaina or even Turn4. By having powerful range you can bypass the mechanics of the fight easier then having a melee.

Garuda's Wicked wheel power was set up such that you had to use well coordinated team work, and experience traveling through tornadoes for melees. While the friction sisters were meant to penalize range people. But by stacking enough ilevel you can "eat" the friction and still make the dps check needed for the fight.

It's basically brute force the requirements for pugs.

A good Garuda EX killing team will have melees and range, because it sure goes down much faster that way. (And more people to bait friction)

[Ri_ri]

We need more of this.

Hopefully SE will get their shit together and make mechanics that challenges everyone, instead of just buffing melee damage over and over.

[Narcissus]

We need more of this.

Hopefully SE will get their shit together and make mechanics that challenges everyone, instead of just buffing melee damage over and over.

We can only hope, I think I read somewhere that melee DPS will be punished less in future fights but im not positive. I hope so, id like to be on the same level as rdps.

[jackff]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsm0Z8TrKFU try

[Zumi]

Twintania favors ranged as well. Due to dreadknights, the melee have to know when they are coming out run to the outer edge of the battlefield incase the dreadknight targets them, while running away they certainly are not dpsing twintania, while a ranged can always stand in the back swap to twintania and swap to the dreadknights as they come out.