State of Ranged Jobs Discussion

[Jigokunoreizasan]

It feels like more people are playing ranged these days because they really don't have down time or draw backs. I feel like an "Adjustment"(polite way companies say nerf) is most likely on the way, but I don't really think their damage needs lowered so much as the amount of up time they get v.s. jobs they need to close the gap on them as they sprint away. What do you guys and gals think is in store for Ranged in our future updates?

Ranged has a lower health pool making them super squishy, Forcing them to get up close and personal makes them even more squishy and games would just become protect your ranged the entire game or suffer feeding. If they do reduce their range then they should require a HP buff just as healers received to make up for it.

[Elfidan]

Ranged has a lower health pool making them super squishy, Forcing them to get up close and personal makes them even more squishy and games would just become protect your ranged the entire game or suffer feeding. If they do reduce their range then they should require a HP buff just as healers received to make up for it.

Lower health does not make for a squishy character that is determined by defense values. they have less because they are able to engage first, however with small matches such as feast 8 or 4 bolt allows for a kill with little of no damage taken. Would you say then that it is working as intended because they have 2500 less hp? That seems jaded Mr. weaver 70.

[Jigokunoreizasan]

Lower health does not make for a squishy character that is determined by defense values. they have less because they are able to engage first, however with small matches such as feast 8 or 4 bolt allows for a kill with little of no damage taken. Would you say then that it is working as intended because they have 2500 less hp? That seems jaded Mr. weaver 70.

I'm not sure what the defense values are (Are there even any defense values? I feel like I hit tanks just as hard as I hit dps, it's just the hp helps buffer them) but 10k hp can drop with the snap of a finger if the enemy dps is good, It's the reason defense buffs are ALWAYS going to ranged dps, because they need it the most. The added range they have allows them to dps from a safe distance without being an arms length away from all of their damage suddenly thrown onto you.

EDIT: It's the reason RDMs are so bad in pvp right now, they're just too squishy with the melee dance they're forced to do to even do damage.
EDIT2: Tanks have 15000 hp Ranged have 10k, 5k hp is a huge amount.

[Elfidan]

5,000 hp comes at the cost of damage or defense. Tanks without their stance are made of butter, but tanks in stance deal low damage.

RDM isn't bad so long as you are smart about when you decide to use the melee combo. Even purely nuking as RDM is decent damage.

There are defense values otherwise you wouldn't be able to take damage as it couldn't be determined. 2,500 is literally nothing you can hit for that in one attack np.

Back to topic though do you think they will adjust them and how?