The DPS focused buffs on the AST cards actually cause more problems for party comps.

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They don't count, the cards specifically say "Melee DPS" or "Ranged DPS" for the stronger buff.

Must've been an oversight from translation team then.
The Japanese tooltips just state that they only have to be melee attacker or range attacker. Nothing about them being specifically melee DPS or Range DPS.



As for the comp, they've been trying to force 2 melees/2 ranges since forever, so this shouldn't come as a surprise to you. When they said they wanted to tone down synergy, they specifically meant something like Dragoon and Physical range jobs, or just the whole debuff def. down in general.

When the game releases, I'll walk up to a training dummy and use the melee dps increase on myself and record whether or not my AAs deal 6% more damage, or 3%.
The glory of a Melee Attacker Astrologian can only be insane.

Classes/Jobs that mainly use melee/range attacks, if you want me to be more specific.