Lol @ Melee vs Leviathan

[omniwaink]

So what you're saying is, further nerf BRD and BLM?

I'm saying SE doesn't care about melee. Every adjustment they have made is just band-aid fixes (flat damage increases without fixing issues of GL stacks, position requirements, forcing melee into PVP queues because 2 melee vs 2 ranged is a loss). In 2.1 they said they would design encounters with melee in mind, yet we have Wicked Whirl on Garuda that has no red zone/cast time. We have bomb formations on Titan that literally force them off of him, as well as issues of melee dropping plumes in flank positions when everyone needs to stack. Then there's Ifrit, where melee make the fight significantly more complicated/problematic because of Searing Wind preventing them from attacking nails, on top of not being able to attack Ifrit during eruptions.

Melee needs a design overhaul, or SE needs to seriously stop boning them with end-game design.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I'm saying SE doesn't care about melee. Every adjustment they have made is just band-aid fixes (flat damage increases without fixing issues of GL stacks, position requirements, forcing melee into PVP queues because 2 melee vs 2 ranged is a loss). In 2.1 they said they would design encounters with melee in mind, yet we have Wicked Whirl on Garuda that has no red zone/cast time. We have bomb formations on Titan that literally force them off of him, as well as issues of melee dropping plumes in flank positions when everyone needs to stack. Then there's Ifrit, where melee make the fight significantly more complicated/problematic because of Searing Wind preventing them from attacking nails, on top of not being able to attack Ifrit during eruptions.

Melee needs a design overhaul, or SE needs to seriously stop boning them with end-game design.

Funny, I had to do Ifrit for a friend getting their relic a couple days ago, and both I and the other melee + OT had no trouble dealing with Searing Wind while attacking nails, and his eruptions NEVER got close to where we were fighting Ifrit at. It was the ranged and healers who had the most trouble with plumes and eruptions, us melee + OT were perfectly fine the entire fight. I only had to drop DPS during the nail phase and when Ifrit jumped up in order to bullrush across the stage. We still beat him easily.

Sorry you apparently get stuck with horrible melee dps and/or can't play a melee dps worth a crap yourself, but not all melee have the supposed problems you're talking about.