We should have a "Lance mage", "Ninja Sword mage", "Fist mage"

[Snowaeth]

Ranged handling adds is done because it is easier on raid dps as a whole to have ranged take care of it. So the melee dps don't loose time striking something ranged just have to be in range and start attacking. Plus the ranged classes have better AoE. Groups did it for the sake of efficiency. Of the ranged classes, it's usually bard or smn to kite because the loose far less dps than others for moving.

I wasn't aware being beyond 3 yards of the boss completely halted your ability to do damage as a ranged class. Clearly the melee should deal with those mechanics instead so the ranged classes aren't so burdened by their inability to DPS from beyond 3 yards.

Ranged have to do adds for the melee, easier on melee.
Ranged have to do ranged mechanics, easier on melee.
Melee's are having it so hard with simplistic aoe's that were introduced around level 2 in the game and ever beyond.

You can pull what I'm saying out of context all you want, my point is the melee's don't have all that many extra things to deal with compared to ranged as people were mentioning here.
Yet people dare to bring arguments the ranged need to be much harder, because the melee's are having such a hard time, which they are not.

Any forced downtime the melee's ever get is compensated by superior dps as it is and even improved upon by skills like the new monk chakra.