Quote Originally Posted by MagiusNecros View Post
They made it up. The tax doesn't exist. The classes just don't do as much deeps. It's a silly term for silly people.
Bow mage...

The ranged tax has been a thing since post HW. Their answer to ARR BRD was literally to put a cast time on them in HW and people hated the cast times (I didn't mind it personally) thus they removed it and lowered the physical ranged dps heavily.