Quote Originally Posted by dinnertime View Post
...Why are you complaining about that when Dancer is one of the most mobile jobs in the entire game? Just because you're Ranged doesn't mean you have to be away from the enemy at ALL times, that and you have plenty of chances to engage an enemy and then keep your distance or avoid AoEs/Do mechanics freely than the other DPS roles. Frankly, I like that Dancer has some short-ranged attacks to give it a little "weakness", or else the job would be too easy.
Uhm, did you actually read what I wrote? I'm saying DNC is supposed to get into melee range to do their damage and the offset is we still do damage on retreat (moving out of mechanics) however it's clear they absolutely over compensated for that given the DNCs performance in content.

Mobility is good, sure... Except that En Avant clips skills and cancels autos. That's a dps loss so we can't use our mobility tool to retreat if we have an auto or skill in animation, as such En Avant is for gap closing or mobility while in Tech/Standard Step. That's a pretty big restriction and using it in a way to ensure you lose no dps means it becomes like every melee gap closer without a damage component (a fair trade given we continously damage while they have a single slow ranged skill at their disposal)

I love the aggressive playstyle and risk of the DNC, what I don't love is the lack of reward.

Remember to be optimal we absolutely have to use AoE abilities on single targets after using flourish in Raid situations. Half of our kit reflects this with skills like our step finishes, Sabre Dance and Fan Dance III having shotgun like effects (more damage to first target, or for being closer, less to subsequent targets) our other AoEs should have that same coefficient (when highlighted for combo bonus/feather generation chance) That would be a great improvement and make us more than that class that's helps others get phat dps while being really good at trash clearing but really bad at single target.

It's not a great ask, it's simply asking that our risk is rewarded appropriately..