Can someone give me an in-depth explanation why Summoner is arguably the worst DPS?

[Havenchild]

By the way, being a melee is far more difficult than being a ranged DPS that is out of range, able to damage an enemy, without being damaged. Start making sense please.

Except if your not playing a SMN in melee range, that's something equally wrong. The best SMNs face the exact same amount of danger.

[ShaolinMike]

Except if your not playing a SMN in melee range, that's something equally wrong. The best SMNs face the exact same amount of danger.

This is ALSO a problem. SMNs HAVE to stand in melee range to maximize damage, but we can't even get close to melee DPS numbers.

[Leonus]

Except if your not playing a SMN in melee range, that's something equally wrong. The best SMNs face the exact same amount of danger.

can you elaborate on this please? I am genuinely curious because I have never seen a smn stand in melee range. I would like to know, might help the smn in my static.

I mean, unless you were joking.

Edit: I am of the mindset that melee dps HAVE to do more dps than ranged. The moment rdps can do as much or more at top level play, it invalidates any reason to bring a melee dps other than for melee LB. People ever only want so many melee dps around the boss, it gets crowded. No one really ever complains about too many ranged dps in the party. At least not from my experiences.

[Brianmj]

can you elaborate on this please? I am genuinely curious because I have never seen a smn stand in melee range. I would like to know, might help the smn in my static.

I mean, unless you were joking.

Edit: I am of the mindset that melee dps HAVE to do more dps than ranged. The moment rdps can do as much or more at top level play, it invalidates any reason to bring a melee dps other than for melee LB. People ever only want so many melee dps around the boss, it gets crowded. No one really ever complains about too many ranged dps in the party. At least not from my experiences.

Book whacking brings valuable damage over time.

[Akiza]

can you elaborate on this please? I am genuinely curious because I have never seen a smn stand in melee range. I would like to know, might help the smn in my static.

I mean, unless you were joking.

Edit: I am of the mindset that melee dps HAVE to do more dps than ranged. The moment rdps can do as much or more at top level play, it invalidates any reason to bring a melee dps other than for melee LB. People ever only want so many melee dps around the boss, it gets crowded. No one really ever complains about too many ranged dps in the party. At least not from my experiences.

Summoner's have to utilize auto attack to maximize there DPS that's why they have to be in melee range.