SE, please fix Dancer.

[Silhart]

DNC in Frontlines is essentially high risk, low reward- and I rag on DNC in Frontline all the time, even though it was my favorite DPS job there before the PvP rework. I have yet to see any DNC in Primal achieve Battle High 5; highest was maybe BH3 before I locked it down when it got back into range and was subsequently mobbed to death. If the "PvP team" is even a bit serious about job balance in Frontlines, at the very least Dancer needs to be tankier than every other rDPS, if not as tanky as the melee DPS if they are going to leave it with it's current kit and expect it to function in situations where they need to wade into more than 5 enemies.

Hey, can I be the first? Here's a screenshot from a match I played an hour ago. Was also the first person on my team to hit BH5.

I'm still learning, but I had no problem hitting consistent BH5s in my first week of playing DNC (this was also after the infamous melee buffs). It made me wonder what the hell everyone else was doing because I also found other DNCs to be easy kill targets, but after seeing this thread I think I'm beginning to understand. There are too many people treating this like old DNC.

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@OP: It's fine to dislike the new direction, and I'm not gonna argue whether new DNC is good or not, but it feels like a lot of the issues mentioned in this thread are born from not understanding how to pilot the job properly. For one thing, you're not meant to use En Avant to dash in unless the enemy is on the back foot; it's far safer to position yourself at max DNC range, hit your GCD, En Avant backwards, reposition for safety/offense as needed, and repeat. 15y from your attacks + 10y dash with En Avant works out to be 25y between you and your target, so you can create enough distance before they have time to react. DNC has the potential to be very slippery in Frontlines--you just need to be proactive about your positioning and the way you use En Avant. Play your cards right, and you'll find that getting attacked is so rare, you could probably take Guard off your hotbar and still end the match with 0 deaths lol (don't actually do this)

But I'm also not gonna argue this too hard, because I kinda like that people see DNC as bad. That just means we'll get buffs, which means I get to unleash sweet, sweet violence.