Preliminary patch notes are up

[Alistaire]

The changes to limit break growth will be a real benefit to forming statics. It will be easier to fill in for a specific role and allow double job combinations instead of looking for the exact job.

While any groups with 1 melee and 3 different ranged jobs just got kicked in the junk for no real reason.

[Kallera]

While any groups with 1 melee and 3 different ranged jobs just got kicked in the junk for no real reason.

No fan of that myself, but...
If I had to hazard a guess, it would be because ranged dps also have the "freedom of movement" to go with dps. How accurate that is now with our bow wizards is up in the air. :/

Used to be a thing where melee were shunned over ranged dps because they had to dodge boss aoes and cleaves harder.

[Alistaire]

No fan of that myself, but...
If I had to hazard a guess, it would be because ranged dps also have the "freedom of movement" to go with dps. How accurate that is now with our bow wizards is up in the air. :/

Used to be a thing where melee were shunned over ranged dps because they had to dodge boss aoes and cleaves harder.

Thing is, ranged dps are universally less dps than melee and more for their utility right now, but there's no real extra useful utility from having either brd+mch or blm+smn that putting a penalty on groups with brd+mch+caster or blm+smn+brd/mch makes any kind of sense. They're essentially gimped enough as is.

I can understand the change; it just would've been better if it had been a penalty to 3+ tanks, 3+ healers or 3+ melee. Penalizing 3+ ranged dps is just rude.

[Noxifer]

I can understand the change; it just would've been better if it had been a penalty to 3+ tanks, 3+ healers or 3+ melee. Penalizing 3+ ranged dps is just rude.

Or if they'd stuck to the same role groups as in the Limit Break tooltip they show nearby:

...and kept Casters and Ranged DPS separate.

For the love of the Twelve, it even highlights the word "role" and then separate them into those groups... I foresee confusion in keeping the role groups separate when they're different in different content.