Ranged DPS role is about to be excluded from all content

[WalxAtNite]

I wouldn't worry about it, especially since ranged physical is likely to get a buff in 5.1

This was going to be my next question. Is BLM going to be nerfed or is everyone else going to get buffed?

And do the devs not have PTR or anything for their patches/expansions? You'd think something being THAT overtuned wouldn't have slipped past the PTR/beta testers.

I'm not new to Final Fantasy, but I am new to the 14 world and the people behind it. It's fascinating. Love the Live Letters and such! I'm still getting a feel for how things work, but coming from WoW (and I was a mythic raider in WoD before I threw in my Loktar Ogar), I know the feels when you're excluded.

I just really hoped such things wouldn't happen here. But I appreciate your explanation and it does help! Thanks again!

[ForteNightshade]

This was going to be my next question. Is BLM going to be nerfed or is everyone else going to get buffed?

And do the devs not have PTR or anything for their patches/expansions? You'd think something being THAT overtuned wouldn't have slipped past the PTR/beta testers.

I'm not new to Final Fantasy, but I am new to the 14 world and the people behind it. It's fascinating. Love the Live Letters and such! I'm still getting a feel for how things work, but coming from WoW (and I was a mythic raider in WoD before I threw in my Loktar Ogar), I know the feels when you're excluded.

I just really hoped such things wouldn't happen here. But I appreciate your explanation and it does help! Thanks again!

They already announced the Range will get "a slight buff" in 5.1. Whether that will be enough remains to be seen.

And unfortunately, no, they don't have a PTR. Which is one reason job balancing can be all over the place sometimes. A bigger problem is they have a tendency to balance around the casual minded players and not the raid scene. Perhaps the best example is back in Stormblood when Yoshida outright said they didn't balance Bard and Machinist with Dragoon in mind despite Dragoon providing two buffs (Piercing and Litany) that made Bard hilariously strong.

[HyoMinPark]

This was going to be my next question. Is BLM going to be nerfed or is everyone else going to get buffed?

And do the devs not have PTR or anything for their patches/expansions? You'd think something being THAT overtuned wouldn't have slipped past the PTR/beta testers.

I'm not new to Final Fantasy, but I am new to the 14 world and the people behind it. It's fascinating. Love the Live Letters and such! I'm still getting a feel for how things work, but coming from WoW (and I was a mythic raider in WoD before I threw in my Loktar Ogar), I know the feels when you're excluded.

I just really hoped such things wouldn't happen here. But I appreciate your explanation and it does help! Thanks again!

It’s unlikely that BLM will get nerfed. The developers have a general aversion to nerfing things, even when they should—this has been well-established throughout the history of the game.

As for PTR, no. We don’t have anything like that despite repeatedly asking for it to avoid problems much like this one.