Quote Originally Posted by Gallus View Post
Tbh I'm more or less fine with BRD. The 10 potency buff should put it a little bit more on par with the other 2 ranged phys classes.



This is false though. BRD has to adjust its rotation A LOT MORE than pretty much any melee. In fact, every melee has a static rotation, with the same amount of buttons being pressed in the same order every time, pretty much against every fight (with very slight variations). BRD's never the same due to the extreme RNG nature of the procs (both OGCD and GCD), DOT uptime management with downtimes and song alignment with boss phases.
It took me one single afternoon to start managing orange percentiles with SAM. Doing the same thing with BRD consistently took months.
The only thing melees have going for them in terms of difficulty is the uptime (and depending on the fight this isn't even an issue in the first place). Positionals do not pose any sort of challenge when you've automatized them.
Positional damage bonus can be completely out of your control with the wrong tank, additionally i see no such data, Also, Samurai is the least positional heavy thus far out of the melee dps, at least with physical ranged you deal consistent damage no matter the set up, I feel like ranged has issues that do need to be fixed, Bard for example should be the median inbetween RDPS and ADPS while DNC should be RDPS, and MCH ADPS, I think adding casting back into Ranged jobs isn't a bad idea if they have some type of functionality like Swiftcast with charges, There hasn't been a kiting Mechanic for RNG implemented this entire expansion like in previous ones either.