The Future of the "Ranged" Role - Feedback for 5.1 Onward.

[ReiMakoto]

I really feel for machinists tbh, they bring the exact same amount of utility as a black mage (tactician == addle), but do 2000-3000 dps less simply by virtue of being a 'ranged'. How nice.

I understand SEs design philosophy behind this, class with easy 100% uptime should be less than one with high probability of losing it. However in practice the fights are not designed in a way that means classes wont have near 100% uptime anyway, so range just end up gimped for no reason, and theres only 2 ways to fix this, force downtime on melees and casters through mechanics , (near impossible because then smn would just be king) or buff ranged

[Lina_Slayer]

I understand SEs design philosophy behind this, class with easy 100% uptime should be less than one with high probability of losing it. However in practice the fights are not designed in a way that means classes wont have near 100% uptime anyway, so range just end up gimped for no reason, and theres only 2 ways to fix this, force downtime on melees and casters through mechanics , (near impossible because then smn would just be king) or buff ranged

To be fair it kind of happens already, at 75th Titan percentile MCH (the strongest ranged) is ~800 (or 6%) behind the best dps on that percentile, while on 99th it's ~1,2k (or 8%) behind, meaning it does comparatively better on less optimized play, the problem is that again the tax is just too high, if at best possible play the ranged role was like 1 or 2% behind it'd be fair, not ~10% behind.