Change Job colour for Support DPS (BRD/MCH) to another colour?

[Soalean]

I'm curious then. Why the whole "Physical ranged must do less damage than magic ranged"? Supposedly it'd make them overpowered, but I'm not seeing anywhere why that'd make them overpowered? Especially since they both now function with cast times, like the magic ranged DPS.

[Connor]

I'm curious then. Why the whole "Physical ranged must do less damage than magic ranged"? Supposedly it'd make them overpowered, but I'm not seeing anywhere why that'd make them overpowered? Especially since they both now function with cast times, like the magic ranged DPS.

Who knows, it's honestly one of those quirks that the devs picked up and seemed to have forgotten about dropping. It's probably because of how overpowered Bard was in 2.0, with people putting them in all 4 dps slots for raids. I think they're terrified that something like that may happen again, and since they couldn't think of a way to balance them out properly, they just decided to pidgeon-hole all physical ranged as 'support', despite them ostensibly not being 'support' at all.

I'm going to be extremely cynical here and say they probably just done this because it's easy option; they can claim the game has 'support' jobs to give a better illusion of choice, ranged physical are balanced, no need to spend time or resources balancing them all out properly. I truly hope that this isn't the case and there's some other reason why they don't think ranged physical can be pure dps, but since they've never discussed it I don't think we'll ever get a straight answer

[Shurrikhan]

I'm curious then. Why the whole "Physical ranged must do less damage than magic ranged"? Supposedly it'd make them overpowered, but I'm not seeing anywhere why that'd make them overpowered? Especially since they both now function with cast times, like the magic ranged DPS.

They aim to have roughly equal raid contributions, over time and per-event, over the majority of possible compositions. Whatever caster dps is added via Bard/MCH can be considered part of their own when it comes to its compositional merit.

That said, I don't know why there's no pure(r) dps ranged option either. Nor can I guess why all forced support ranged options (those that are forced to pay to some degree out of their general dps capabilities to merely have the option to support) are all equally reduced ahead of time, rather than having closer numbers originally and falling further only when supporting, or any point on the spectrum there-between (low-cost support but reduced general dps vs. near-equal general dps, but dps-costly support).