The unrewarding state of physical ranged

[ssunny2008]

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As i´ve listed above, for me it´s up to the boss mechanics and how ppl got used to it, not to the classes. I understand the reasoning behind it and that there is an obviously safezone on caster / melees, because they´re somehow harder to play / have to take care about more. The bosses are just too predictable, works pretty much always the same and we barely get new exciting mechanics which force a dps loss for melees/caster. Especially if we compare them to melees, only E12s diamond dust is real pain (maybe even E9s somehow esp. for monks). It´s a bit of RNG and dangerous to keep uptime there. But overall for everything else like E10s, which has several mechanics where you´ve to leave the boss, melees got something against it. (backjump -> range attack -> dash, or ninjutsu / SSS) A lot of QoL and dumb downs of several classes did a lot to it obviously too.

Work needs to be done everywhere of course, but the content is viable with any class and dps farm isn´t even part of the game. Either the boss is dead or not. And with phys. ranges you´re that happy one, who can always adjust to everything easily at any time in every content. You´re not just that 1% raidbuff, maybe to the top tier metaslaves, but the most don´t care about that.

Another thing about the current tier is, how it´s calculated. I don´t know the scalings and if something got adjusted by SE. If the multipliers are the same like 3 tiers ago, of course the gap between the classes will get bigger and bigger as more stats will be thrown on us. It actually looks like that, when i check some numbers from the latest tier and compare them with the current one. If it´s really a thing, SE needs to fix that in the background. (Which is hopefully a thing with the 6.0 number changes.)