Dancer Flourish is badly designed and not actually enjoyable to use

[HyoMinPark]

Only responding to the first half.

Just FYI ranged are brought to ultimate because tactician is necessary, and the 1% raid damage for having a ranged is meaningful. If they were just a bit worse on dps, I'm fairly certain they'd bring another caster or melee. In fact, that is what happened prior to the buffs.

And, if you had read what I had written, you would see that I already acknowledged the state of the physical ranged prior to Patch 5.1 and how triple melee+BLM or double BLM was technically better than a physical ranged and their 1%. But even so, people still brought physical ranged in the majority of the top speedkills. There were only 3/10 of the Top 10 for E2S and E3S that completely dropped a physical ranged in favor of a triple melee+BLM comp. Most others still took them—either BRD or DNC. MCH, unfortunately, didn’t have much prescience in the Top 10.

The AOE mitigation from Tactician/Samba/Troubadour is meaningful in TEA, yes. But have you also been keeping up with how strong BRD in particular is in there? With the ability to double DoT Living Liquid + Living Hand in Phase 1, and the ability to double DoT Cruise Chaser and Brute Justice in Phase 2, the job isn’t anything to scoff at. DNC can AOE during Phase 1 at any point LL and the Hand are together. Same for BRD. MCH is the one that slips behind a little here but it’s still valuable to take.

If you’d paid attention to Jan’s argument in this thread, their entire premise is that DNC is struggling and is in the verge of being excluded. But that is simply untrue, and even though I cite where DNC theorycrafters and mentors disagree with the claim that DNC is borderline unviable, they continue to argue with their feelycraft. And they try to cite a very easy EX primal to back up their claims as the only shred of evidence they can offer. Nothing else they’ve said they have bothered to attempt to prove, and they even tried to say healer compositions affect the types of DPS one takes, which is flat out incorrect.