Quote Originally Posted by Ramura_Sono View Post
And anyone with a shred of objectivity, knows that SMN is broken and needs to be brought down a peg. If the arguement for bringing up phys ranged is "BUT SMN THO" maybe just maybe ranged are fine and it's smn that's the issue.

As far as bringing back bow/gun mage. I've got bad news for you. A sizable portion of people playing phys ranged play them nearly exclusively for their freedom of movement. The disdain for HW bowmage was tremendous and bringing it back will see these forums explode with posts asking to have it removed again.
I mean I don't disagree with you. I already made a thread that upset a bunch of people saying that the phys ranged role as a whole was fine but just needed some internal adjustments (BRD in particular needs some love). But it also makes the "low risk low reward" argument fall flat and SE doesn't seem to care about SMN being on top while having rez, a lot of freedom of movement, etc.

Quote Originally Posted by Lastelli View Post
BLM was only superior to SMN in very specific scenarios where it could minimize movement and only in full uptime encounters like final omega...after 2 series of buffs at the end of the expansion. So saying that BLM had the highest theoretical dps is misleading at best.
I feel like you didn't actually read my post very closely. That's why SB BLM wasn't dominant, yeah? Nothing wrong with it having more potential when that potential is hard to realize. And neither SMN nor BLM were as dominant as SMN is now.