So...is the Ranged Role gone? Are we in a Reverse HW?

[Karshan]

You do realize there are fights where specific strats are needed for those mechanics, yes? The standard strat for O12S was brutal on melee yet very few groups wanted to adjust because the uptime version was much riskier. With M/F, you simply lost damage with zero way to mitigate it. Eden's Gate largely avoided melee downtime but that's one tier. If Machinist did capable damage to Samurai there is zero doubt PF would begin ostracizing it. They did with Ninja and Dancer during 5.0. Even statics were opting out of Ninja because it was objectively inferior by much a wide margin. And ask any Samurai main how Stormblood felt. Dragoon and Ninja dominated the melee scene simply because they were better at nearly everything.

And no. The WF group ran Bard.

You're having me think : maybe they do plan in Verse fights so heavy on mechanics and movement it will bring melee and casters down by 1000 rDPS (and so on par with range).

Hence the absence of change on ranged's DPS. Cause yeah they're in the gutter for the first tier (1000-1500 behind)