Phys Ranged hopes

[Valence]

IDK why Flamethrower hasn't been changed yet. Wildfire being an AoE like in PvP would be nice (possibly 25% falloff damage like Standard Step) and Iron Jaws would be less awkward to use as an oGCD

WF has never been AoE in any of the pvp versions. Not having every ability of the skill roster being used in AoE is okay as long as the AoE patterns are interesting and fun. Battery needs an AoE spender quite hard though.

Doesn't mean I'm against AoE WF though, sure, why not. But the priority is battery as far as i'm concerned.

Then how about they adjust the proc rates based on the number of DoTs up? (Unless it already works that way? I’m not sure tbh)
My issue is when Refulgent Arrow procs, it PROCS and feels amazing and then a minute or 2 straight I get nothing and it feels dry. Shadowbite is a worse offender because it’s almost never up when I need to barrage. Really I could go either way

Bard repertoire proc rate has gone through various iterations:

ARR/HW: only bloodletter/RoD were tied to dots, songs were doing different things, but the skill had a chance to reset any time you got a crit on a dot tick.
SB: songs tied to repertoire like today, every repertoire proc had a chance to proc from crit on a dot tick (PP, bloodletter/RoD reset, army haste buff).
ShB: procs tied to dot ticks without the crit requirement (to reduce itemization reliance), proc ratios greatly reduced in return.
EW: procs tied to 3s ticks linked to songs, no more reliance on dots.

I wouldn't mind them having basic procrates of say, 40% for no dot up, 60% for one, and the current 80% for two, sure. They can even keep the current 3s fixed song timeframes that aren't linked to dot ticks because it's frankly less obnoxious. It's definitely one of the big ??? of EW changes that removed all meaning from the dots on that job.

I wouldn't mind more from the procs on the base GCD action, much like MCH used to, or even DNC, or even better something new and fresh, but well, I'm not holding my breath...