Physical range dps damage?

[Connor]

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See this is what’s confusing me about the whole ‘ranged dps value’ thing.

All ranged must have the very bottom tier dps of all damage dealers to compensate for their utility and mobility, which is totally fair (besides the fact the utility is barely a draw itself lol).

But then, there’s Summoner.

It has way high dps, it can raise, it has nigh-infinite mobility like any ranged, it has a damage buff, it has an attack debuff, a self-buff for defense (not that you’d want to really have Titan out lol), hell it even has party-wide regen.

Why does ranged have to be the worst dps with the worst utility, when Summoners to have it all and more.

Idk I don’t get why Summoner is allowed to be what’s essentially a support job, except with great dps and high utility, but then the actual role that’s supposed to be ‘support’ can’t have any of those things?

I’m not saying Summoner should be nerfed or anything because that wouldn’t be fair on them, but why can’t ranged have equivalent levels of utility? Would Bard really become a very top dps of them all if it had a regen? If Dancers had raise? Machinists using debuffs?

Idk I guess what I’m saying is, why are these things ‘super-OP’ on ranged, but they’re totally fine when they’re on a caster?